Run Chicken Run

[Capella_Ben (Ben)]

My possibly overprocessed version of the Running Chicken Nebula.



I think it turned out OKish, but could be better.


Your thoughts on how to improve?


Roughly 10.5 hours exposure time.


https://flic.kr/p/25iJsu4

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's a great shot. Because you have many hours it would support a fair amount of sharpening imho. Really nice colours.

[Peter Ward]

Nice wide field...and well framed to boot.
Colour palette choice...meh...but not overcooked (I dislike dry chicken)

A strong image just the same.

Nice one

[traveller (Bo)]

Looks great Ben, well done.
A bit clipped IMHO, and some of the wispy-ness can probably be teased out a tad more.
I like the colour palette.
Cheers
Bo

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

A very nice result Ben

Mike

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Echoing what's been said - there's a very good image here already that can be further improved with cropping off the left side & digging out more details.
Also there's something odd with Lambda Centauri star itself

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Flickr doesn't want to load it for me but from what I can see on the IIS version, that's really very nice, Ben, congrats!

[Capella_Ben (Ben)]

Many thanks for all the kind words.



I busted out the LHE in Pi and have sharpened it a bit. Attached is a crop of the centre to show a bit of the detail. I still need to finalise it a bit, but I think that is an improvement.


It is a bit black clipped on the red channel. Not sure why it keeps doing that, but it is a problem. Seems to happen when I do the LRGB combination of the Ha.


I also noticed that changing the reference preview for background neutralisation can have a big effect on the finer details.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Very nice image there Ben. I quite like the colour palette as well.

[ChrisV (Chris)]

Very nice capture. And I like the processing

[Capella_Ben (Ben)]

I forget to mention before that there was a bad refplection on OIII. Hence the weirdness around Lambda Centari. For some reason it is only my OIII filter that does that; almost as if I have it in backwards...


Anyway have sharpened and cleaned it up a bit.



https://flic.kr/p/25jJfqt
https://www.astrobin.com/406329/

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Great field of view and a very nice image Ben - awesome you got a little planetary in there as well

[Capella_Ben (Ben)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Great field of view and a very nice image Ben - awesome you got a little planetary in there as well

Yeah the PN is pretty nice. Took a while to find what it is but I think it is PN Hf 69.