Liberty

[niharika]

Still need to do few more iterations of processing, meanwhile...

larger full frame can be seen here (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rakibul/13971469173/sizes/o/)

Exposure: Ha (18x 30min), S2: 6 hrs (mix of 30min & 45min), O3: 6 hrs (mix of 30min & 45min), RGB Star (9 min)
Scope: TEC160FL
Mount: AP1600
CCD & Filter: FLI PL16803 & Astrodon 3nm filters, Baader RGB Filters
Guiding: MOAG & STi

[Astro_Bot]

Love it. :thumbsup:

[pluto]

:eyepop:
Great detail and colours, it feels very "energetic" the way it goes towards white in the core. Awesome image!

[acarleton]

I bet if you showed this to the average person they would think this is a hubble shot. Amazing

[Asterix2020]

Love it!

[RickS]

That's a great result. Colour and detail both very good. Well done!

[LightningNZ]

Love the palette you used. The colours look brilliant, as does everything else about the photo.
-Cam

[Ric]

Wonderful image.

Great work.

[Dennis]

Wow – that full res shot is just awesome. So much to see and with such beautiful details, structures and tonality throughout.

Cheers

Dennis

[Paul Haese]

The Hi Res shot looks good on my iPad. I like the colour too. Well done

[Peter.M]

Its a great image! makes me wish I had some clear sky to finish mine off!

[Andy01]

Gobsmakking! No words to justify it but crikey that's brilliant work!

[SkyViking]

Very good indeed, especially the colours look great! Nice choice of palette.

[alpal]

Fantastic result.
Much more detail than LRGB.

cheers
Allan

[Bassnut]

wow, thats way over the top. Excellent work, a classic!.

[rcheshire]

+1 stunning. Flaming amazing.

[dutch2]

Stunning image, beautiful colour.
Well done.
:thumbsup:

[niharika]

Thank you for all the kind comments. I have been battling with these data for a while and might have clipped the shadows a tad. I will stop looking at it for a while before trying to reprocess it with additional data.

[gvanhau]

Beautifull shot!
21+h Lot of time invested already on it.

[multiweb]

+1 Beautiful rendition. :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

A stunning image. Amazing you got some clear skies.

Greg.

[niharika]

Thank you. All I can say is gathering those 21 hour data was tedious and already spanned over a month. Having a perm setup definitely helps in gathering data.

[strongmanmike]

Oooh yeah ain't that the truth Hasan :thumbsup:..making it automated helps even further..one day i'll do it :rolleyes:

Anyway, fabulous image very worthy of the fabulous equipment set used :thumbsup:. Unique colours, you got that bit right but for me and at the risk of sounding like a yr 10 Physics student questioning Einstein :P and if you would like some contructive feedback.. the sharpening has produced unnatural stringy looking featues in the bright areas :shrug: - only noticable when viewed at full res though :thumbsup: at unexpanded view the whole scene looks amaaaaazing!

Great job

Mike

[niharika]

Thanks Mike. Feedbacks are always welcome. Helps me look back and improve. Yes those worm/stringy like structures are showing up as a result of Deconv. This is something I been trying recently and still need to master the balance where I don't over do it.

[strongmanmike]

Ahhh the dreaded decon...is it real detail or is PSF manufactured :question:..the jury is is still out I recon ;)

Again, a great image regardless :thumbsup:

Mike

[niharika]

In the attached image i am showing a 200% zoomed version of a small section. Original is on the left, middle one is what I think would be a close to good decon & the right one is what I ended up posting :p

[alpal]

I like the picture the way it is.
You can always debate as to whether you've pushed the sharpening too far.
I have found that every pic needs a certain amount of sharpening -
as we're trying to see more than would otherwise be seen -
& it's still real as I would just call it enhanced.

You have to remember that the human brain does quite a bit of processing too.
We actually see upside down & the image is inverted to be correct!
We search for shapes & recognise them - that's how we read.

[dvj]

I've seen many images of this object. I'd qualify this amongst the best ever done.

jg

[Peter.M]

Just out of interest I thought I would post my image cropped around the same area, albeit from a smaller scope.

[Earl]

Wow!