Lagoon in Ha

White Rabbit · #1 31-08-2013, 11:59 AM

Hi guys.

Took this last night before the clouds rolled in.

3hrs of Ha data

Processed in Pixinsight
DBE
Histogram
HDR multiscale transform (thanks Ricks)
curves

Looking forward to getting some colour on theses.

pmrid (Peter) · #2 31-08-2013, 12:55 PM

Great image scale for this object. The original would be a treat but I think it ha suffered in the process of getting it down to the IIS 200K limit - either that or something else has introduced some serious artifacts. Either that or somewhere in the processing but it strikes my eye as being blocky - like the crop attached shows.

Peter

White Rabbit · #3 31-08-2013, 01:42 PM

Yeah the jpg process shreds it especially down to 200kb.

Hi res versionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sandy073/9634651496/

RickS (Rick) · #4 31-08-2013, 01:50 PM

The high res version looks really good, Sandy!

tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook) · #5 31-08-2013, 02:54 PM

That High res Lagoon is stunning!

Great work

Cheers,
'
Justin.

Bassnut (Fred) · #6 31-08-2013, 06:12 PM

deep and detailed, excellent

multiweb (Marc) · #7 31-08-2013, 06:16 PM

Nice shot. Shame about the compression artefacts in the posted pic.
PS: the high res is simply stunning. The best I've seen to date.

dvj (John) · #8 01-09-2013, 01:09 AM

Stunning image. Your stars are small and sharp. Tell us more about the HDR multiscale transform. I'd like to try it on some of my Ha images.

jg

strongmanmike (Michael) · #9 01-09-2013, 01:27 AM

Wow, yes one of the best Ha Lagoons I've seen, lovely

What scope..?

Mike

White Rabbit · #10 01-09-2013, 08:20 AM

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments.

John

I'd love to tell you all about the HDR Multiscale transform but I don't know anything about it myself. Its the first time I've used it lol. It's a module in pixinsight. I just opened it hit "apply". I didn't like the results the first time so played around with the amount of layers until I got what I what I wanted. I left everything else as default.

Mike

I used my orion 102 refactor. Thanks for the comment.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #11 02-09-2013, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Mike

I used my orion 102 refactor. Thanks for the comment.

Yeah?? wow, looks like it could have been done with a much bigger scope, nice work indeed

Mike

Ross G · #12 03-09-2013, 10:59 PM

Great photo Sandy.

So much detail.

Ross.

iceman (Mike) · #13 06-09-2013, 02:44 PM

Beautiful image. You need to reduce the dimensions and then when save for web, make sure you keep it under 200kb otherwise the forum software will compress it some more.

iceman (Mike) · #14 10-09-2013, 04:46 PM

This beautiful image is now IOTW. Congrats!

multiweb (Marc) · #15 10-09-2013, 05:00 PM

Whohoo! Congrats Sandy. Top stuff.

sjastro · #16 10-09-2013, 06:35 PM

Excellent image.

Regards

Steven

h0ughy (David) · #17 10-09-2013, 07:07 PM

another image to make Marc happy - great shot

Chaz · #18 10-09-2013, 07:14 PM

When I saw the high-res image my first reaction was "How is this is from an *Earth-based* telescope?"

Truly stunning. Deeply impressed.

Spookyer (Brett) · #19 10-09-2013, 09:08 PM

That is some of the best nebula cloud I have seen, I find the cloudy areas often look slightly out of focus but everything in this images looks crisp. Well done!

White Rabbit · #20 10-09-2013, 10:49 PM

Wow, image of the week HA!!! I'm blushing, thank you for this great honour.

It means a great deal to me.

Thanks for all the positive feed back.