The Wolf Nebula

[gregbradley]

I have imaged this one before after Paul Hease published his image of this a while ago.

I took 16 hours or data but only used about half of that the rest was rejected due to minor flaws.

I took a long time processing this one, several weeks. But I am happy with this final version that overcame a few aspects I was not happy with.

TEC180, MMOAG, STi guider, FLI Proline 16803 -35C, HaLRGB image taken from my dark site observatory. Good seeing.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/155890887/large regular size

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/155890887/original large

Greg

[multiweb]

Top shot. Love it!:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Thanks Marc. I worked on this one a lot. It was a bit elusive for a while.

Greg.

[RickS]

A very nice rendition, Greg!

[LightningNZ]

Geez Greg, that's something special that is. House Stark would be proud! ;)
-Cam

[batema]

Beautiful. I don't think I would know how to work on am image for several hours let alone weeks. I think I need to do some learning.

[strongmanmike]

Yeah not bad, not bad at all...gives Marcus' version (the best I have seen of this object thus far) a real run for its money!... and he is going to win the DM's this year BTW ;)

Mike

[gregbradley]

Thanks Rick. It took a while to tame the stars as they were a bit too dominating.



Thanks very much Cam. A lot of work went into it.



Its all good fun. Thanks Mark.



Cheers Mike. You got a hot tip. Are there odds running this year?

Greg.

[marc4darkskies]

Good one Greg! I quite like the deep magenta you've got going on there. :thumbsup:



Stirrer!! :lol:

For the record, my version didn't get a guernsey from the Prof! :shrug:

[Peter Ward]

I really like how you've managed to control the h-alpha blend.... no dark rings around the stars :thumbsup:

A great result !

[strongmanmike]

Not all, just what I think, it's a beautiful image :)



Would have from me :thumbsup:...besides could still get a highly commended ;)

Oh and Greg, again, your Wolf is excellent!!

Mike

[gregbradley]

Thanks Marc. Your rendition is quite spectacular.



Thanks very much Peter, I appreciate it.



Ta Mike. The main issue I had with this image was the stars were too dominant in the original versions. I had to tame them without damaging them. I tried the PI routine but it damaged the stars and the colours of the nebula. It probably needed more fiddling with the settings of the mask and the various steps. Photoshop with some masking and curves did it easily. I plan on mastering PI but I can see it could be a slow process.

Greg.

[Phil Hart]

Very nice piece of work Greg. I don't see all the images here by any means but one of your most 'natural' and polished looking results that I've seen. The processing time has paid off. Something to be very happy with.

Phil

[gregbradley]

Thanks Phil. That's anice compliment as I am striving to make my processing more natural. Its almost a contradiction "natural digital processing".

Greg.

[atalas]

Terrific work Greg....really good contrast work too that's helped lift this shot.

[gregbradley]

Cheers Louie.

Greg.

[David Fitz-Henr]

That's really nice Greg, excellent image :thumbsup:

[Octane]

Agreed, truly beautiful work.

H

[gregbradley]

Thanks David.



Thanks Humi. I see you are getting ready to pump out some more excellent images.

Greg.

[Octane]

Not anymore, I'm not. My STL-11000M sensor or glass chamber has cracked. I'm done for.

$3K repair bill (I've asked to send the camera to SBIG to make sure it's not the sensor, but, just the glass chamber).

I'm just not even thinking about it anymore. I paid $1K the other day for an FW8-STL and have paid PreciseParts for an adapter for the Extender-Q (like a Feldstein #6) which got sent to the wrong address (old address in PayPal) and was marked as a successful delivery as no signature was required (I'm chasing this up by writing a letter to the address and asking them to send the damn thing to me, as it's of no use to anyone).

Such a magnanimous waste of money. If it turns out to be more than the $200 repair of a cracked chamber, and I end up with an >$8K paperweight, I think I'll just sell everything and get out of the game.

H

[gregbradley]

Ooh, sorry to hear about this. Hopefully its just a cracked CCD chamber glass.

Greg.

[Octane]

Me, too.

I've just posted in the astroimaging equipment subforum.

H

[hotspur]

This stunning,so beautiful,one of the most outstanding deep sky images seen on these pages,I hope you sent it to APOD.

[gregbradley]

I hope it works out well for you.



Thanks very much Chris! Yes I have.

Greg.