I’ve taken a bit of time away from astro due to work and life recently but decided the best way back in is to get an image printed so I’ve recently gone and reprocessed (again) my Eagle Nebula data and got it printed. Framing it in the next few days
It does have some warts in the background but it needs some more exposure than the 4-5 hours of data and heavy stretching.
Hi Colin
I dont post in this section because there are so many excellent images posted I could not keep up...however I must say that your image is most impressive.
I looked at your high res and blew it up until I had a near replica of the famous Hubble image and I would say that most folk in the street would find it difficult to tell which is yours and which is Hubble☺ But if you think you can improve on it please do so ..However I dont know where you could improve.
Alex
Regardless of the warts Col, it still looks spectakalar!
Mike
Thanks Mike
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Love the colour palette!
I won’t pixel peep but it sure has some punch!
I tried getting it as close to SHO as possible, used the Hubble version a few times the pillars to see if I was close and it seems pretty close... minus the extreme resolution
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Originally Posted by Stonius
Fantastic! Straight to the pool room! :-)
Going straight into an exhibition, framed today
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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Hi Colin
I dont post in this section because there are so many excellent images posted I could not keep up...however I must say that your image is most impressive.
I looked at your high res and blew it up until I had a near replica of the famous Hubble image and I would say that most folk in the street would find it difficult to tell which is yours and which is Hubble☺ But if you think you can improve on it please do so ..However I dont know where you could improve.
Alex
Thanks Alex. I've brought out every bit of resolution that I could from the data but there is some artefacts left over from star removal that I really need more exposure or better processing skills to do without
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Originally Posted by Ryderscope
Definitely worth the printing Colin. The colours work well and the image certainly draws the eye.
It looks really good printed if I say so myself
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Originally Posted by Stevec35
Looks pretty good to me Colin. That's excellent work for such a short exposure.
Spectacular image Colin. I really like the colour combination.
Geoff
Thanks Geoff, I did put a bit of time into trying to get the colour correct. Finding that the best way is to remove all of the stars before colour calibrating.
That's crazy great, Colin. "Alive", indeed.
Emotional art and science. Detail and mystery.
How does it look printed? Could you post "a photo of the photo" with a bit of wall around it?
Maybe, an hour here and there of doing just "the visual thing" is what your heart is telling you... The beauty of an open cluster filling your FOV by chance. The intimate and immediate experience of aimlessly cruising the starry sky.
That's crazy great, Colin. "Alive", indeed.
Emotional art and science. Detail and mystery.
How does it look printed? Could you post "a photo of the photo" with a bit of wall around it?
Maybe, an hour here and there of doing just "the visual thing" is what your heart is telling you... The beauty of an open cluster filling your FOV by chance. The intimate and immediate experience of aimlessly cruising the starry sky.
Hanging is tomorrow so I'll get a photo of it on a wall then
You are quite right there, I did want to get out and do a little visual from time to time but with what I'd call a swamp 300m away during summer (large body of stagnant water) the mosquitoes alone are enough to keep me locked up even a few hours before sunset
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Originally Posted by Placidus
That's absolutely awesome Colin. Love the colours. Perhaps tending toward oversharpened, but still in the zone. Well done.
MnT
Thanks MnT. I did hit it with some 100 iterations of deconvolution so I definitely pushed it a bit
I nearly fell of my chair, colours woke me up, very bold spectacular M16. A bit too much green in spots but a fine result.
John.
There is a good chance that’s because I do my processing on an uncalibrated laptop in varying lights I have tried to match the colour with HST versions which have some green.
Really like the inner details and overall color you've got. Colour halos are distracting though. Did you do a star removal or did you have varying star sizes between channels?
