Lagoon in SHO - with added PI magic!

[pluto]

I've reprocessed my M8 data from this year using PixInsight and I'm much happier with it now.
Well mostly happy, the stars were pretty fat in the data and hence quite fat in the final image. I think I captured this during a week of really bad seeing as the FWHM was around 4 to 5 for these images :(

Bigger version here:
http://hughsblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/m8-pixinsight-reprocess/

Any comments/critiques would be welcome :)

[traveller]

Great image Hugh, lots of detail.
Bo

[strongmanmike]

Yeah like this Hugh, a nice balance of detail and dynamic range and the colour is nice too, good job :thumbsup:

Mike

[dvj]

PI processing brought out some great core detail. Well done!

[RickS]

Details seem good so the seeing can't have been too terrible. There are some good tools in PI for dealing with fat stars too :thumbsup:

[Rod771]

Very very nice Hugh, love the colour and detail. :thumbsup:

I've just started using the Masked Stretch tool to soften my bloated stars, does a great job I think. The "Morphological Transformation" tool will also reduce star sizes. Masked Stretch Tutorial (http://www.harrysastroshed.com/pixinsight/pixinsight%20video%20files/2014%20pix%20vids/maskedstret/maskedstret.mp4)

Also try the "Dark structure enhance" script with a mild setting. It can really make the dark dusty bits pop. Its in "Script - Utilities" from memory :question: (I'm at work ATM)

Cheers

Rod

[Spookyer]

Yeah, looks good.

[pluto]

Thanks Bo!


Cheers Mike, it's always tricky to get the balance right with SHO, so I'm glad I'm on the right track :)


Thanks John, yeah I was a bit surprised with how much detail was lurking in there!


Thanks Rick, I'll definitely be looking into this :)


Cheers Rod, I'll check that out.



Thanks Brett :D

[Amaranthus]

Fantastic Hugh, lots of details and nice HST-style palette contrasts.

[DavidTrap]

Nice colour balance. I prefer your effort to my SHO lagoon - might need to reprocess mine.

DT

[pluto]

Thanks very much guys, I'm glad you like it :)

[multiweb]

Terrific! Love it. :thumbsup:

[pluto]

Thanks Marc :)

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Hugh.

Love the detail!

Ross.