As expected, seeng didn't cooperate to be able to gather more Lum this cycle. But, I did gather plenty of RGB (105, 105 120 minutes) and though the seeing wasn't good, I made it work!
The top one is mine, the middle one is a very red version taken through the 2.2m MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile (reduced by approx 50%) and the bottom one is the same ESO image reprocessed by Rob Gendler to bring out some of the hidden colour - he left a few halos though! The ESO image clearly has more fine detail (of course) but the processing of it seems to miss much of the other faint structure and colour .
All up, mine's not bad for a mere 8 hours of integration (under good to very good seeing) so I've decided NOT to gather NB for it because I doubt an NB rendition could could improve much on the impact of this rendition(?) Besides good conditions here are too rare to be extravagant with integration times! I may get some more lum next cycle though.
Pretty sweet Marcus. You've got the best colors of the lot. The ESO has more fine details obviously. Not sure what happened with the Gendler rendition though...
Your detail is very good Marcus and you've left these guys for dead in the processing. Well done!
Geoff
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Originally Posted by lazjen
Great image and yeah you've done far better processing than those ESO images.
Thanks very much Geoff & Chris! I guess scientists at ESO have better things to do than process their images for aesthetic appeal.
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Originally Posted by atalas
Looks fantastic Marcus ...prefer the screen size view because you can get the full impact and boy do I mean impact!!!
Wouldn't expect anything less from you....hope It gets you many accolades.
Thanks for that Louie! As long as my peers think it's a good effort I'm a happy vegemite! I post the full res when the seeing is good because I think it reveals the maximum level of detail more easily than squinting at a small image. EVERYONE should post at full res, mm'kay!
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Pretty sweet Marcus. You've got the best colors of the lot. The ESO has more fine details obviously. Not sure what happened with the Gendler rendition though...
Cheers Marc! Like I said above - the scientists probably have better things to do than to sit processing a single image for a whole day! I'm guessing Gendler used some colour data from another resource - with lower res. Just guessing though .
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Originally Posted by PRejto
Pretty fantastic (and pretty)! So wonderfully detailed. It pops!
Peter
Thanks a lot Peter!
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Originally Posted by Placidus
That's fantastic, Marcus.
Normally I really struggle to appreciate straight RGB, but this one is great.
Superbly done!
Much appreciated M&T! I thought about doing NB before I realised this is not a bland red object at all. The nuances of colour in the LRGB are quite spectacular.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A lovely rendition. Love the colouring.
Greg.
Thanks very much Greg!
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Prefer the smaller version Marcus and the colour is nice. Another example of old favourites showing they have more than just boring red.
Ta Paul.
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Originally Posted by mountainjoo
Really like this, far from the red blob often portrayed. The detail is superb.
Thanks Jerome! I've always believed that pure red nebs are quite rare - some just make you work harder to reveal their secrets!
That's fantastic Marcus! When I did it with the Nikon D810 it showed some colour variation but no where near to the same extent as what yours does! Maybe I needed more than 1.5 hours to bring out that colour contrast?
, see here for a comparison with the ESO 2.2m in Chile. 
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I post the full res when the seeing is good because I think it reveals the maximum level of detail more easily than squinting at a small image. EVERYONE should post at full res, mm'kay! 
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