Scope: C8 f/3.3 Location: Del Mar, CA 11/18/2003 Camera: ToUcam SC3
Exposure: 8 x 20 sec and 9 x 60 sec Luminance Exposure with IR Block filter and SkyGlo LP filter . 15 x 10 sec RGB Exposures
Processing: Captured and stacked in K3CCDTools with L,R,G,B saved as FITs. Luminance was the IR / SkGlo filter exposures. LRGB masters were co- registered in Astroart. Some Lowpass filtering was applied followed by un-sharp mask on the Luminance frame. Luminance exposures combine was done in Photoshop. LRGB combine was done in Photoshop using Luminance Layering . Ears were removed with Loreal; background was smoothed in SGBNR as saved as TIF. The result TIF had minor touch up in Photoshop.
This image was taken in my front yard in Del Mar there is a fair amount of light pollution here. As a reflection Nebula in light polluted conditions, I found NGC281 a challenging object. Horizontal FOV is 23'