Sydney Swan

[Peter Ward]

A wider view of M17 here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery317.html)

Didn't mess with the colours and simply went straight RGB (no-H-alpha)

[h0ughy]

you have been busy

[el_draco]

Now you're just showing off..... ;-)

[Larryp]

Really churning them out, Peter. Nice one!

[Paul Haese]

Maybe just a little flat in contrast but great colours. How is the noise in a larger res image?

[alpal]

Very nice Peter & once again it could be made even better with a little cheating.
In Photoshop - remove the stars with fill.
Sharpen the nebula only & shove it back into the original with a varied opacity. :)

cheers
Allan

[Peter Ward]

Well I could. I could also airbrush a nice smiley face on the swan :)



Ta Paul. Noise?... I do have a constant ringing in my ears due 4000 odd hours in noisy turbo-props :)
(as an aside...I expect to be logging my 20,000th hour on "heavies" later this year..)



Ta Laurie




Thanks gentlemen ..Busy? yep! ....showing off? ...nah...that would require seriously more data

[alpal]

Peter,


Very funny - I did say it was cheating. :rofl:

[multiweb]

That's a tough one in RGB. Nailed it, including star colors. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

A lovely M17, Peter, especially for such little integration time.

[Rod771]

Very nice Peter! Colours are great. :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Ta. I like the colours too :)

With many brighter objects, you simply don't need much exposure to get a good result.

Happy snap (daylight) photographers get fantastic results in 1/500th of a second or so :)

It's also worth noting the RHA has 4x the light gathering of my AP155, hence the numbers would read 120:120:120 mins with that scope to get the same S/N ratio. :thumbsup:



Your feedback is always appreciated Marc. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

I have been imaging M17 in narrowband at f/9 so your 30:30:30 is only one noisy sub in each filter for me :lol:

[gregbradley]

That looks great. I particularly like the way the stars are so well differentiated. In some scopes with a wide view like that they can get a bit mushy. These are very well differentiated.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Ta Greg...I've since taken a few comments on board, and have put up a snappier version at the same URL... a little more Vegas neon now :)

same link as before (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery317.html)

[Star Catcher]

Looks great to me Peter, and less neon for me :lol:, you can't win.
Ted

[prokyon]

Very nice, especially for not using Halpha.