M104 the Sombrero Galaxy Now in colour

[Octane (Humayun)]

Looks very promising so far, Greg. Looking forward to the final rendition!

H

[Paul Haese]

Nice resolution Greg. Looking forward to the colour version.

[topheart]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Cheers Tim. It must be coming up to the dry season in Cairns?


Greg

Yes indeed!! The cyclones have all been and gone....the last week has been clear at Savannah Skies every night all night...so, yes I declare our imaging season open now until December!

I hope you have clear skies down there!
Cheers,
Tim

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Octane

Looks very promising so far, Greg. Looking forward to the final rendition!

H

Thanks Humi.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice resolution Greg. Looking forward to the colour version.

Cheers Paul.

Originally Posted by topheart

Yes indeed!! The cyclones have all been and gone....the last week has been clear at Savannah Skies every night all night...so, yes I declare our imaging season open now until December!

I hope you have clear skies down there!
Cheers,
Tim

let the imaging begin!

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice one Greg. Nailed everything.

[tornado33]

Always great imaging of M104 to show its globulars

[atalas]

Sorry Greg...thought I responded to this fantastic shot look forward to seeing colour added!

[willik (Willik)]

That turned out so good Greg the detail what more do you want.
Martin

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Nice one Greg. Nailed everything.

Cheers Marc. I was happy to see such sharp data. It was excellent seeing.

Originally Posted by tornado33

Always great imaging of M104 to show its globulars

Thanks. Yes and there a lot of them.

Originally Posted by atalas

Sorry Greg...thought I responded to this fantastic shot look forward to seeing colour added!

Cheers Louie. Some images turn out better than others.

Originally Posted by willik

That turned out so good Greg the detail what more do you want.
Martin

Thanks Martin. I hope to get out a colour version shortly.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Now in colour:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/167304557/large regular size


http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...04557/original large size


Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Not bad Greg but you have lost the resolution from the Lum a bit The Lum looks great. Always challenging to preserve detail when constructing the colour version, I know, but I recon it'd be worth a retry .

Mike

[Peter Ward]

Colours look a little muted which may be due the colour data being a little thin?

Waiting for mother nature to give consistently deliver good seeing for the RGB sets can be a pain...Lord knows... we've all been there

Getting there Greg. It will be a cracker

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Looks pretty good Greg although the colour doesn't match the quality of the luminance. I'm currently doing this one myself but so far only have luminance.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Not bad Greg but you have lost the resolution from the Lum a bit The Lum looks great. Always challenging to preserve detail when constructing the colour version, I know, but I recon it'd be worth a retry .

Mike

Yes it did lose some there. I have more data I can play with so a 2nd version is on the cards.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Colours look a little muted which may be due the colour data being a little thin?

Waiting for mother nature to give consistently deliver good seeing for the RGB sets can be a pain...Lord knows... we've all been there

Getting there Greg. It will be a cracker

Yes I struggled there. A 2nd version may be in order.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Looks pretty good Greg although the colour doesn't match the quality of the luminance. I'm currently doing this one myself but so far only have luminance.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve. Yes I agree.

Greg.

[LewisM]

Nice Bellerophon Greg!

(Reference to Forbidden Planet for the non-Sci-fi classicists)

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

A great result Greg! Look forward to the colour!

PS: Aaah, spoke too soon, I see the colour version but I'm afraid you've lost something in translation. Try blurring the colour, adding vibrance and sat, and then layering it as a colour layer on top of the luminance. Colour data shouldn't add noise or affect the detail in the image at all.

[gregbradley]

I used Marcus's advice and it came out a lot better. Also used PI to align the colour and the luminance instead of manually in Photoshop. Added the extra colour data I had captured so this is more like an hour per RGB now.

Much happier with the result:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/167304557/large regular size

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...04557/original large size

Thanks Marcus.

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[gregbradley]

I fixed the colour so now the detail is there but in colour.

Greg.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Yep - I think you nailed it this time Greg

Steve

[Peter Ward]

Getting there...the mottled sky background is somewhat distracting.

That said, colour much improved