NGC6188 in Hubble Palette

This is my first fully narrowband colour image. Chose to use the so-called Hubble Palette of assigning SII filter image to red, Ha to green, and OIII to blue. The Ha is pretty dominant in this area, that's why it looks so green. If it was true colour, it would be red of course.

I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I was up til 2am on Wednesday night imaging this area, only to realise I had juuuust missed out on the opportunity of including that bright little planetary nebula in the top right. So I tossed that data and started again the following night slightly recomposed.

Glad I did. I quite like what it adds to the image. You can see the Ha (green) immediately around the central star, then a lighter outer shell of OIII (blue) further out that the star has shed. Cool.

The main nebula I originally set out to image is NGC6188 and is in the constellation Ara. I like the hand-like shape in that area, always reminds me of the famous Sistine Chapel image with hand of God almost touching Man's hand (I think that's what it is).

The bi-polar planetary nebula is NGC6144 and NGC6145.

Any comments/critique welcomed.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/troypiggo/71785​19884/

I really dont know anything about this type of photography, but it really amazes me the shots you people who do this get. I struggle to get a clear moon shot.

Great photo!

Good work. What scope is this with?

Thanks guys. Scope was TMB92SS, a very recent purchase , with Orion Flattener. Took me some testing to get the spacing right between Flattener and camera to get flat star field, but think I'm there now. Camera is QSI583ws and 12nm Astronomik filters.

Very nice !

Thanks, Ron

Great shot.....good work.