Astrofest NGC6729

[peter_4059]

Just got back from Astrofest. Had a great week with plenty of clear skies and great company. Haven't managed to process much yet but did have a go at this while up there.

Comments welcome.

here's the full version.
http://astrob.in/51490/

[cosmophoton]

Excellent image, very nice colors!

[multiweb]

Beautiful rendition. Great colors. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Yeh, good one Pete, I imagine you have a bit of data to hammer through huh? :thumbsup:

Mike

[RickS]

Very nice, Peter. Hope the rest are as good!

[Dennis]

Very nice Peter – loved the hi-res (full) version!:thumbsup:

Cheers

Dennis

[Paul Haese]

Nice colours Peter. Good field of view too. Maybe the glob is a bit over blown but the rest looks good.

[troypiggo]

Nice and dusty! Soo jealous of the weather you had. You must've got a sackful of data. Looking forward to seeing the results.

[hotspur]

very fine work,well done.Amazing week of weather.

[h0ughy]

not too shabby Peter - what a great sample of the fest

[Nortilus]

very nice. Worth the trip to QAF i think.

[jase]

A ripper image, Peter! One of your best without doubt. Star colours are a real treat. More please, well done.

[peter_4059]

Thanks Marc. I'm pretty happy with it.



Cheers.



Thanks for the feedback Mike. I haven't counted it all up yet but there must be 10-20 objects to process. Couldn't stack up there because there was a problem with Pixinsight and didn't have internet connectivity up there. The update seemed to fix it when I got back yesterday.



Thanks Rick. The refractor sure was a lot more forgiving than the Newt.



Thanks Dennis. We missed you up there again!



Thanks Paul. Would you recommend masking to keep the glob under control?



Cheers Troy - you should have been there!



Sure was.



Thanks Dave - managed to do some imaging in between the festivities!



Cheers Josh.



Thanks for the comments Jase. Upgrading the focuser on that refractor has been a major breakthrough. It's nice to get some good results for a change!

[Paul Haese]

Yeah you could do that, I would use a layer mask and then do your curves adjustments etc and then mask out the glob in the process. Anything else such as stretch etc needs to operate the same way.

[peter_4059]

Thanks - I'll give it a try

[Ross G]

Great looking wide photo Peter.

Very nice colours.


Ross.