Top image Paul, with a great natural look and good balance across the FOV.
IMO the Lagoon can handle quite a bit more saturation, but that is of course a matter of taste Great work as always Paul.
Top image Paul, with a great natural look and good balance across the FOV.
IMO the Lagoon can handle quite a bit more saturation, but that is of course a matter of taste Great work as always Paul.
Thanks Rolf, you could be right regarding the lagoon. It just looked so fluro to me even as this. Might have to do with the RC12 soon, just to say I have covered as many combination as possible.
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Very nice, as always. Looking forward to your future images with a different scope!
Thanks Slawomir, unfortunately my new STXL has developed an issue so I will be imaging with the QSI through the RC12, mainly as an experiment, but I want to start doing a few galaxies.
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Originally Posted by Stevec35
Now that's a good Lagoon. Nice Job Paul.
Steve
Thanks Steve, I have always found this particular object difficult to really get right and I am still not entire convinced I have got it right. I do however know I spent a great deal of time trying to balance the star fields and nebulosity together. The big problem I have found is that using Ha in the mix can taint the blue badly and the end result looks oddly purple across the field. I tried to use both Johns recent image of the area and Ricks image as guide lines. I suppose it really needs a larger field of view to give that huge field of view.
Very well balanced image with easy to consume colours Paul. I like the classic composition, it suits M8. Processing doesn't look over done and you've nailed the golden star field. Great image.
Great details, Paul, and a cracking image. I would have gone more fluoro but you know that
Sorry to hear you're having more camera woes. I'm still waiting to get mine back too
Cheers,
Rick.
Thanks Rick, I can't bring myself to go too fluro but you know that.
Yes disastorous to have yet another camera playing up again, but be part of my lot to learn more patience.
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Originally Posted by jase
Very well balanced image with easy to consume colours Paul. I like the classic composition, it suits M8. Processing doesn't look over done and you've nailed the golden star field. Great image.
Thanks Jase. I think this is a better view than trying to squeeze both M8 and M20 on the same 8300 frame. I spent about 9 hours sorting the processing. It's really easy to go over board with this object and trying to get the golden star field is a real test. I found it is in the sequencing that makes the difference.
super sharp and awesome golden stars.
you've somehow managed to balance the dynamic range quite well - somehow i think its just me at times!
Great image,
Rusty
Thanks Rusty. Getting the golden star right with the various wisps of nebulosity can be quite challenging. One that has defeated me several times. Pretty happy with this attempt.
Sorry to hear that you camera is out of action for the time being ,but also congratulations for having your photograph of the Vela Super Nova remnant highly commended in this year's New Scientist Eureka Competition for science photography
A minor criticism is the core is slightly burnt out.
Regards
Steven
Thanks Steve, and well picked up on the core. I have repaired this somewhat. I had neglected to really examine this area and appreciate the notification.
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Sorry to hear that you camera is out of action for the time being ,but also congratulations for having your photograph of the Vela Super Nova remnant highly commended in this year's New Scientist Eureka Competition for science photography
Thanks Slawomir, the camera is a pain, but SBIG are onto it. The Eureka Prize was a nice surprise earlier in the week and a nice accolade.
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Originally Posted by Rex
Top job as usual Paul. Love that golden star field.
Thanks Rex, I am fond of that star field too. I really like the magenta streaks going through star fields too.
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These some nice depth and detail in this one Paul. A lovely result - Trev
Thanks Trev, certainly my best rendition of this object I think.
A fantastic Lagoon image Paul, the detail is amazing and the star field is spectacular.
Barb
Thanks Barb. I wonder if I collected a bit more data in the lum whether more of the faint nebulosity would appear.
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Originally Posted by Andy01
That's a lovely lagoon - nice balance of colour & form. Well done
Thanks Andy. One can only try, I suspect though the saturation is a little too high for a Malin entry next year. It's sort of fluro for me too to be honest.
Great work as always Paul.
,but also congratulations for having your photograph of the Vela Super Nova remnant highly commended in this year's New Scientist Eureka Competition for science photography 
