Tarantula L-Extreme and Asiair Pro first light

[Nikolas (Nik)]

The L-extreme lives up to the hype.
I processed this in APP and Photoshop using HA 03 combination, the amount of both in this nebula surprised me, the filter really brought it out.

ASIAIR pro is a step up from the original in terms of speed of transfer and the combined dew straps but the original is just as good.

41x 300 secs in bortle 6 skies Melbourne. asi 294MC

[xa-coupe (Jeff)]

Wow! I have been collecting data on tarantula, but with a svbony light pollution filter ... and I am quite sure it will not turn out as great as this.
I do have an L-extreme on it's way from China .. via the slowest boat they could find apparently.

I'm going to guess that I will be reacquiring all the data after looking at this.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Thanks Jeff, I was surprised how much nebulosity this filter picks up in the HA channels.

[JA]

Great image Nik. I especially like the somewhat ghostly vibe and colour.

Best
JA

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Cheers JA I wanted the colours to be a little muted as it adds to the ethereal quality of the target.

[jahnpahwa (JP)]

Thats such a rich, full to the brim field! Very cool. I'm sure the filter is fantastic, but also want to give large a high-five for your skills in getting the data and processing it

[Astronut07 (Ben)]

Nik

Absolutely fantastic image mate!
Well done
I’m heading out to our dark site tonight, looks like I know what I’ll be imaging

Cheers
Ben

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Thats such a rich, full to the brim field! Very cool. I'm sure the filter is fantastic, but also want to give large a high-five for your skills in getting the data and processing it

Thanks JP I am surprised at how it turned out, the conditions were pretty good last night, everything just worked

Nik

Absolutely fantastic image mate!
Well done
I’m heading out to our dark site tonight, looks like I know what I’ll be imaging

Cheers
Ben

Thanks Ben have a great night would love to get to a dark site now that we are allowed out of our areas but work gets in the way.

[RyanJones]

Very very nice Nik. Capturing the extra nebulosity has filled the field perfectly and made a really complete image. Well done 👍

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Thanks Ryan it was just a great night for imaging last night and that new filter really makes it complete.

[gregbradley]

That's a terrific image Nik.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah that's pretty good Nik, plenty of fine detail, it's different...but looks cool . Such a dynamic interesting region of sky that.

Mike

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah that's pretty good Nik, plenty of fine detail, it's different...but looks cool . Such a dynamic interesting region of sky that.

Mike

Hey Mike
I'm not sure if it's the filter that makes it "different" It's a first light for me and only the second time I've imaged this. I processed it by extracting Ha and 03 then combined them in APP processed them in photoshop. This is the result of the processing with APP

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a terrific image Nik.

Greg.

Thanks Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Hey Mike
I'm not sure if it's the filter that makes it "different" It's a first light for me and only the second time I've imaged this. I processed it by extracting Ha and 03 then combined them in APP processed them in photoshop. This is the result of the processing with APP

Ok cool, it a great result

Mike

[AdamJL]

Beyond beautiful. What a cracking image!

Originally Posted by Nikolas

I processed this in APP and Photoshop using HA 03 combination

Would you be so kind as to explain this to a novice please, Nik?

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Originally Posted by AdamJL

Beyond beautiful. What a cracking image!



Would you be so kind as to explain this to a novice please, Nik?

Hi Adam

I use Astropixel processor.
It allows me to combine my images and also to split the channels when stacking.
The L-extreme filter only allows a narrow band of light from Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen 3
When using APP I stack them using the channels HA then the channels O3 in the stacking setup.
Then I combine the 2 channels using RGB combine HA being red and O3 in the green and Blue channels, Tweak it, play around save it then process it in Photshop.
In the meantime the HA channel is also used as a luminance layer which brings out the finer details in photoshop.
This processing alone took 2 hours of tweaking to get right as I'm fussy.

[Max Vondel (Peter)]

Nice image and inspires me to investigate that new filter

[codemonkey (Lee)]

That's awesome Nik, I really love the palette.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Originally Posted by codemonkey

That's awesome Nik, I really love the palette.

Cheers Lee I think it's fairly balanced and the L-Extreme really brings out the H-Alpha channels.