IC 2944 - Another fleeing chook. First narrowband image

[jwoody (Jeremy)]

Hello all
Another IC 2944 - Running Chicken Nebula in the hubble palette.
My first proper go at a NB image and I am really unsure about colours and balance.

I would like some critical comment please and feel free to re process.

Full res here http://astrob.in/300091/0/

20x600 secs in each channel using a Sharpstar 65Q,QHY9 and Baader filters.

Thank you
Jeremy

[RickS (Rick)]

That's quite nice, Jeremy. You've got half the traditional gold/turquoise colouring but there's nothing wrong with the green instead. The absence of magenta stars & halos is a big plus, IMO. My suggestion for improvement would be to try and pull out a bit more variation in the colours.

Cheers,
Rick.

[jwoody (Jeremy)]

Hello Rick
Thanks for the comments and suggestion.
I had a bit of a play as you suggested and came up with this

http://astrob.in/300102/0/

Looking at it again now I may have overdone it just a bit?
Thank you

[RickS (Rick)]

I like the new colouring, Jeremy, but looks like you might have lost some of the faint glow. It's always tough doing the final version

[lazjen (Chris)]

Welcome to the current chook yard.

You got a lot more data than for mine and it shows. My only suggestion would be to try to push the colors a bit to show more differentiation - for example, my version was far too green dominant. Yellow and green are a bit similar so perhaps push the green further "away"?

[jwoody (Jeremy)]

I have push and pulled colours all around and have concluded that more O3 data would help.
Anyway this is what I came up with.......

Astrobin here
http://astrob.in/300401/0/

[RickS (Rick)]

More data is always good

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Much better Jeremy.
Geoff