Bit of work in this me thinks and you have come up with an attractive colour palette (fiiiiinally! ) this time Mike and Trish, it looks quite beautiful I really like the subtle features in the lower right quadrant of the image, some lovely layers going on there
Great job guys, hard to create something of interest with such a well imaged field
Beautiful. .. Eta Carina star is shown as green and be better if that were corrected. ...
A fantastic image with some room for enhancement to take it further.
Greg.
Thanks, Greg, and thanks for the useful advice.
The green Eta carinae is quite intentional. I should have put that in the caption. I didn't want to mess up the Homunculus. The inner, two-shuttle-cocks back-to-back Homunculus strong in OIII is just barely discernible, but the outer, larger but fainter Lion's Beard around the Homunculus (not shown in early Hubble releases but seen in others) is quite visible.
Bit of work in this me thinks and you have come up with an attractive colour palette (fiiiiinally! ) this time Mike and Trish, it looks quite beautiful I really like the subtle features in the lower right quadrant of the image, some lovely layers going on there
Great job guys, hard to create something of interest with such a well imaged field
Mike
Yeay !!! Thanks Mike !!
Regarding the subtle features at the lower right, if one puts one's head on the side (so the image looks North up), one can see a very large but ghostly and transparent Black Dalek, seen side on. Must be all that radiation from Eta that did it.
Outstanding Mike! Wonderfully nuanced color, great detail and attractive palette! A feast for the eyes! Agree with Mike S, it's a refreshing view of a familiar object!
I actually don't mind the magenta stars these days. After all, they are a natural by-product of this palette.
I actually don't mind the magenta stars these days. After all, they are a natural by-product of this palette.
Cheers, Marcus
I agree with you here too Marcus, the total fear of magenta stars is not warranted IMO, sometimes it does look quite good as long as it is not too strong
The green Eta carinae is quite intentional. I should have put that in the caption. I didn't want to mess up the Homunculus. The inner, two-shuttle-cocks back-to-back Homunculus strong in OIII is just barely discernible, but the outer, larger but fainter Lion's Beard around the Homunculus (not shown in early Hubble releases but seen in others) is quite visible.
Best,
Mike
Yes I noticed the detail there - that is great. That's the power of the 20 inch aperture.
I saw yesterday Planewave are now making RCs! But they say its for the scientific community. After all they have been saying for years CDk is sharper than RC although I haven't really seen proof of that in images (mind you I like my CDK17) except perhaps Martins which are superior. The seeing though seems to be the limiting factor as usual.
Very cool Mike. So much going on in there. It's like an open buffet, all you can dig.
Cheers, Marc,
There's a lot of stuff that quite surprised me in the newer area on the right, with thin pillars similar to the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle, many eroded to wasps' waist thinness in places.
Many thanks!
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Outstanding Mike! Wonderfully nuanced color, great detail and attractive palette! A feast for the eyes! Agree with Mike S, it's a refreshing view of a familiar object!
I actually don't mind the magenta stars these days. After all, they are a natural by-product of this palette.
Cheers, Marcus
Hi, Marcus, We're genuinely delighted that you like it.
Yes I noticed the detail there - that is great. That's the power of the 20 inch aperture.
I saw yesterday Planewave are now making RCs .... The seeing though seems to be the limiting factor as usual. Greg.
I agree with you about the seeing. Even the best seeing here (say 1.8 sec arc) is still far worse than the spot size in the extreme corners.
We find that the CDK with its spherical secondary is very easy to collimate. This is especially important for our set-up where the collimation screws are four metres above the ground. (Trish takes 20 second photos 1.5 mm out of focus, while I hang from the dome by my heels and adjust the secondary.)
A superb Ritchey-Chretien might outperform a superb CDK in the Atacama desert, but my vague understanding is that it requires skill to collimate, and an unskilled attempt might negate all the expensive benefit.
That is an intriguing view of this ever imaged object. I really like the veiled views of clumping gas and dust which is shrouded by intervening thin gas and dust. It gives that real 3 D feel. I think the green channel you could adjust just a little to give a more magenta colouring to the dust and gas clouds.
Well done, certainly the most pleasing image you have produced in my opinion.
Hi Mike,
that's a great advert for the CDK 20" PlaneWave.
You can clearly make out "the finger of God" next to "the keyhole."
& it doesn't even look like you've tried to sharpen it.
I love the colour palette.
Well done
That's a lovely image, great choice of colour palatte too - well done Andy
Thanks, Andy. Glad you like it.
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That is an intriguing view of this ever imaged object. I really like the veiled views of clumping gas and dust which is shrouded by intervening thin gas and dust. It gives that real 3 D feel. I think the green channel you could adjust just a little to give a more magenta colouring to the dust and gas clouds. Well done, certainly the most pleasing image you have produced in my opinion.
Yippee! Thanks Paul. I'm slowly starting to understand.
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Hi Mike, that's a great advert for the CDK 20" PlaneWave. You can clearly make out "the finger of God" next to "the keyhole." & it doesn't even look like you've tried to sharpen it. I love the colour palette. Well done cheers Allan
Thanks, Allan. I've heard the "finger" described as the Fickle Finger of Fate. I think it's the "I drive a Bentley" symbol.
) this time Mike and Trish, it looks quite beautiful 
I really like the subtle features in the lower right quadrant of the image, some lovely layers going on there 
