Amazing taking owl having fun on a surfboard with good seeing and working equipment :)

This was taken with narrowband Ha and Oiii filters and manually combined to LRGB. First 3 days were amazing in seeing and one can see a lot of details in data, last night had some clouds occasionally so some data (that is described here) was dropped to avoid stars halos. After that I had 3 more surprise nights to collect more narrowband data.

This one was really though for me to process. I wasn’t happy with initial version and re-started 4 times to reprocess (with different drizzling, NSG frames instead of WBPP, how & when to inject Ha & Oiii, …). I almost gave up but finally came with this version that I like somehow. Unless I see the need to clean up background more, I will probably keep this as final version.

I wanted to add version with zoomed Owl nebula & Surfboard galaxy and I quite like the result. I uploaded also full resolution image as Revision J. Now I am just not sure what to mark as final version - downsampled, combined or full resolution version - any suggestions from readers? :)

If anybody would like to try the process this data, I am happy to share all masters - just drop me DM.

I like it and hope you also like it.