Rho Ophiuchi from Snake Valley

SimmoW (SIMON) · #1 28-03-2015, 11:07 AM

My longest image session with the Sony cam yet, just over 5hrs

Flickr version

danielsun · #2 28-03-2015, 11:12 AM

Great work Simon, lovely colours, lovely image!!

Placidus (Mike and Trish) · #3 28-03-2015, 01:55 PM

Very sharp. Beautiful to see the inky black dust lanes obscuring everything beyond, being either crossed by, or actually providing, some blue reflection nebulosity. Two aspects in one.

Meru (Michael) · #4 28-03-2015, 05:44 PM

Great!

SimmoW (SIMON) · #5 28-03-2015, 10:04 PM

Thanks, yes I tried my best to get the colours right without going overboard

Rod771 (Rod) · #6 29-03-2015, 10:12 AM

Nice one Simon! It's an awesome part of sky to image.

Well done!

RickS (Rick) · #7 29-03-2015, 11:52 AM

Very attractive, Simon!

Meru (Michael) · #8 29-03-2015, 11:53 AM

What were the capture details for this?

strongmanmike (Michael) · #9 29-03-2015, 06:26 PM

Wowzer Simon, looks pretty good. Purely as feedback on what is a rather nice image...I do see a slight green cast in the dust in the left hand areas and the bright stars look to have been flattened (dimmed) a bit, perhaps some gradients too but gee those stars are tight as a fishes bot bot

and you have handled the noise well. Overall a really nice view, well done

Mike

SimmoW (SIMON) · #10 29-03-2015, 07:03 PM

Capture details are in Flickr.

Thanks for spending the time on the feedback Mike, I'll be more careful with my star reduction next time, though I did try to be careful this time- it's so easy to go overboard. Perhaps I should have done 2 versions :-)

gregbradley · #11 29-03-2015, 07:18 PM

HLVG is a free Photoshop plugin from Rogelio Andrea and it will get rid of that excess green. Its possibly airglow.

Great shot and that Sony is looking great here. The image is more CCD like.

Greg.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #12 29-03-2015, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SimmoW

Capture details are in Flickr.

Thanks for spending the time on the feedback Mike, I'll be more careful with my star reduction next time, though I did try to be careful this time- it's so easy to go overboard. Perhaps I should have done 2 versions :-)

I did mean the stars being tight as a good thing

Mike

Ross G · #13 29-03-2015, 09:03 PM

Another beautiful photo Simon.

Each time I see one of your shots I'm one step closer to the Sony Shop!

Love the composition as well.

Ross.

multiweb (Marc) · #14 30-03-2015, 12:18 PM

Great shot Simon. Looks like you've been having fun. Fantastic area of the sky at any FL.