RGB stars, nebulae is a blend of a bicolour (H&O) and an RGB image.
Gettin' sick of imaging nebulae to be honest, need to get back to galaxies, but I haven't been getting the requisite combo of good seeing and dark skies, so nebulae it is!
This is just over 31hrs of data. The H was shot around full moon with lots of fog on much of the data... I would have thrown it out, except when I integrated just the data that was not fog affected, I was getting weird black spots in the image
Out at my observatory at the moment and only on my little phone ..but regardless, I can tell this is a keeper! strange framing ...look forward to checking it out (..for worms ) on the big screen when I'm at home
Did you know that the Pillars of Creation no longer exist - according to some Spitzer scientists. They claim it was blown apart by a supernova but we wont see the effects for another 1000 or so years.
Did you know that the Pillars of Creation no longer exist - according to some Spitzer scientists. They claim it was blown apart by a supernova but we wont see the effects for another 1000 or so years.
At the rate I feel 2020 is going, that's probably just next year. :p
Lee: nice details in the image. Colours are funky weird, but not in a bad way.
Out at my observatory at the moment and only on my little phone ..but regardless, I can tell this is a keeper! strange framing ...look forward to checking it out (..for worms ) on the big screen when I'm at home
Mike
Cheers Mike! I almost feel like you'd be disappointed if I didn't leave some worms there for you to find... that's my excuse anyway. I pushed this one hard, using 3 different kinds of "sharpening"... but then I basically always push that stuff hard, so that's no surprise.
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Did you know that the Pillars of Creation no longer exist - according to some Spitzer scientists. They claim it was blown apart by a supernova but we wont see the effects for another 1000 or so years.
I did not know that, thanks for the insight :-)
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At the rate I feel 2020 is going, that's probably just next year. :p
Lee: nice details in the image. Colours are funky weird, but not in a bad way.
lol. That would be the icing on the faecal spongecake.
Cheers Mike! I almost feel like you'd be disappointed if I didn't leave some worms there for you to find... that's my excuse anyway. I pushed this one hard, using 3 different kinds of "sharpening"... but then I basically always push that stuff hard, so that's no surprise.
Even on a good monitor, it looks great Lee and no worms on my radar ...the three cheeses approach has done a fine job
Purely out of interest, what is the reason behind the framing you have chosen?
Thanks Nik! I struggle with NB colours so I'm glad you like it :-)
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It looks great Lee apart from the wormies
Excellent resolution and detail.
Thanks Colin
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Even on a good monitor, it looks great Lee and no worms on my radar ...the three cheeses approach has done a fine job
Purely out of interest, what is the reason behind the framing you have chosen?
Mike
Thanks Mike :-)
I needed to capture this at this orientation to work in with other targets I was imaging on the same nights, but as for the composition, I liked having the pillars 1/3 in from the right and had intended to bring out more faint stuff on the left, but while the data is clean enough to support it, I just didn't really like it when I did that
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Great rendition, Wormsy
(that’s the deconvolving astro equivalent of Banksy)
Great image Lee, and well done on breaking away from the traditional framing - this would make a wonderful double page spread in a magazine, or
cover wraparound - with text overlaid on the left hand side.
What a fantastic image Lee. Detail is exquisite, and so is framing and the colours. One of the best images of the pillars my eyeballs have looked at. Really well done
or cover wraparound - with text overlaid on the left hand side.
True, the left half would be the back of the book cover and the book title would be in the space above the pillars ...very ingenious Lee...now.. you just need to write a book..?.. on making data taken with a little inexpensive 8" scope look as good as data from a bigger much more expensive scope...you could call it "Big data from small scopes - uncovering the detail"
..but regardless, I can tell this is a keeper! 
strange framing 
...look forward to checking it out (..for worms 
) on the big screen when I'm at home 
