Testing the new Optolong L-Synergy filter on WR134 + Gianni Lacroce

WR134

Testing the new Optolong L-Synergy filter

Credit: Gianni Lacroce

 

 

Test with the new Optolong L-Synergy filter a 7nm S2 O3 dual-band filter, and I have to say I really liked it.
I chose to photograph WR134 in the constellation Cygnus.
Having shot in monochrome, which usually results in a significant amount of signal with an H-alpha filter, the O3 is there, but sometimes I have to integrate a lot to bring it out; the S2 isn't there at all. So I thought, ‘There won't be all that much signal; to take a decent photo, I'll have to integrate a lot,’ and that's why I took 200 5-minute shots.
Once I'd processed the photo, I found it came out of the WBPP without gradients or halos, but above all, bicolour, meaning full of S2 and lots and lots of O3, and I find this wonderful. I didn't have to do anything else in processing except stretch the image, balance contrast, highlights, and tones to customise it a bit, but in the end, it was already like this in the raw file.
This filter greatly simplifies post-production.
I'll also show you the Starless Nebula to help you understand the signal and the O3 it produces.

 

Starless Nebula

 

 

 

 

EQUIPMENT
Imaging Telescope: Newton Tecnosky Carbon 200
Imaging Camera: Zwo Asi 2600 duo  
Mount: Zwo Am5
Optolong L-Synergy filters

PHOTOS
temp 0 with dark, flat and darkflat
200 x 300s  

PROCESSING 
Pixinsight
Photoshop

Hope you like it.