Composite Collaboration

[Martin Pugh]

Hi folks.
I have not posted here for ages, but would like to share an image that is both a composite and a collaborative effort.

You will remember last week that Greg Bradley posted an Ha image of a portion of the Milky Way. Well, just prior to that I had finished my first light with the Canon 5D MKIII and the 24-70mm lens and thought it a good idea to approach Greg to see if the images could be combined, especially as my 5D is unmodded.
Here is the result:

http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.a u/images/MW.jpg

So, the composite is as follows:
Milky Way Colour - Canon 5D MKIII at ISO2500. 24-70mm lens at 35mm, and f5.6.
15 x 3 minute exposures.
Milky Way Ha - FLI Proline 16803, Nikon 50mm F1.8G lens set at about F5.6, 5nm Astrodn filter, 2 hours.
Rho Ophiuchi - SBIG STF8300 and Canon 50mm f1.2 lens at f4.5. LRGB 180:90:90:90 minutes.

Image is 75% of the original and 6mb d/l.

hope you like it.
Cheers

Martin and Greg.

[LewisM]

Guys, is it possible for either of you to ever make a bad image???

VERY nice indeed.

[Larryp]

Great work!

[naskies]

Fantastic image, gents! The combined "DSLR look" and "CCD look" in the one image is eye catching, and the Ha data adds a lot of "pop" to the tail of Scorpius area.

[IanP]

This is what I'd call: Perfect Collaboration.
:thumbsup:

[Stevec35]

Like it a lot. The Ha adds so much to the overall depth of the image.

Cheers

Steve

[iceman]

That's quite beautiful indeed. Very beautiful in fact!

[Peter.M]

Your processing is amazing Martin, I love that you have collaborated so many different setups so seamlessly. My favorite thing is the colour of the emission nebulae and how "natural" they look. The only thing that I would change would be the emission on the right hand side of the image to match the left hand side. But obviously this is because they weren't in Greg's image.

[nebulosity.]

That's stunning :eyepop: