horsehead and flame nebula

[IanP]

Horsehead and Flame Nebula

90 images (120s @ISO1600) taken over two days from our courtyard close to Perth’s CBD ..
Cam: EOS 60Da
Scope: ED80TCF
Guiding: PHD guided CPC925
Stacked and processed in PixInsight …
Higher res: http://westcoastpics23.blogspot.com.au/

[Rod771]

Very nice Ian, well done :thumbsup:

[RB]

I agree, it's a very nice result indeed Ian !

[Larryp]

Very nice result!

[IanP]

Thank you Laurie ...

[IanP]

Thanks Andrew ...

[IanP]

Cheers Rod !

[astronobob]

Danngg ! ! Nothing wrong with this in my opinion Ian, Dam jealous of it actually, very clean work ! ! I dig the Full field too, some horsey clos-up just dont look ballanced, compositon wise !

Great Job :thumbsup:

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Ian.

Nice colours.

Ross.

[kjant]

If this is from a suburban sky I am in awe, very nice. Not to mention I am waiting at this moment for delivery of my own new ED80t CF. If I cannot get a result very similar from suburban Adelaide, we will be speaking again!

Cheers Kym.

[IanP]

ok

[John Hothersall]

Superb result but you could brighten it up a great deal using shadow and highlight in PS and bring out the wonderful dark material. Great result for CBD.

John.

[Gem]

Nice! The only comment I would make is that the darker areas could be a touch darker... but it looks great! Classic Horsehead. :)

[alistairsam]

That looks amazing for 2 minute subs, although that adds up to 3 hrs.
Did you use a LP filter?
Wasn't the moon over 90%? How did you manage that?
Well done

[TrevorW]

As said a classic HH nicely done

[IanP]

Thanks John,
I think by brightening it up I’ll display some noise (it’s like greenish background ) that I managed to heavily reduced by the magic of the PixInsight dynamic background extraction and ACDNR.
After PixInsight there is really not much one can do in PS.
#IP

[IanP]

Thanks Grant

[IanP]

Cheers Trevor ..

[IanP]

Thanks Alistar,
I didn’t use the Astronomic CLC LP filter because it changes the colour balance – everything is so “blueish”. Maybe I still don’t know which option to select in the camera colour balance …
So, no filter, no Moon, and I waited till all neighbours switched off their lights …
#IP

[niko]

just lovely!

[ReaPerMan]

Excellent work. Really good for a CBD pic! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[steve000]

Wow.

[strongmanmike]

A solid Horsehead shot that, nicely composed too :thumbsup:

Mike

[multiweb]

Beautiful field and colors. Great framing. :thumbsup:

[dynamo]

I just fell out of my chair!!!
Amazing detail, Ian!
Thank you!

[IanP]

Thnx, Niko ..

[IanP]

Thanks Paul,
It's within the CBD, but is very, very close - Churchlands ..
I take all shots facing North-West or West ..
#JP

[IanP]

Cheers ..

[IanP]

Thnx George,
I went to Harvey-Norman and printed 12"x8" - looks great ..

Thanks also to Michael and Marc ..
Cheers ..
#JP

[ving]

very nice shot! definitely nothing wrong with that!

[pdf]

Fantastic shot. What filter did you use given your proxinity to Perth and light polution? :)

[DrWho]

Nice !!!
A solid shot !!!

[IanP]

Thanks David ...

[IanP]

Thanks,
I have the Astronomic CLC LP filter, but I don't use it for the reason I mentioned in the other post.
PixInsight seems to do the job very well instead ...

[IanP]

Cheers, DrWho ...