The Seagull Nebula REPRO

[gregbradley]

There are various interesting nebula formations in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These are a few of them.

AP140 F7.5, Proline 16803, PMX 7 hours 20 minutes Ha O111 LRGB.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/159787366/large


Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Wow, look at that field :eyepop: very cool Greg.

I think you may have blown the neb highlights a little but great colour and contrast, love the prominent blue stars too.

Is that the final image with the AP140 :sad:...god I hope there isn't anything wrong with the RHA :prey: and you are happy with it...has some quality shoes to fill huh? No turning back now.......

Mike

[IanP]

This is awesome shot Greg, but I’d attenuate stars a little bit.
A couple of months ago I found a tool for Photoshop called StarRemoving, and with opacity set to roughly 60% your shot looks absolutely amazing !!! my 3c …
:thumbsup:

[Andy01]

Love these crazy little LMC nebs, that's a very funky picture :)

[Stevec35]

Nice wide-field view there Greg. Plenty of great detail.

Steve

[gregbradley]

Thanks Mike. I did do shadows/highlights on those bright areas so perhaps a tad more is able to pulled back but they are in fact a bright area. I have one other image from the AP140 and yes I hope the RHA is better as you say its got some shoes to fill.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Ian P

This is awesome shot Greg, but I’d attenuate stars a little bit.
A couple of months ago I found a tool for Photoshop called StarRemoving, and with opacity set to roughly 60% your shot looks absolutely amazing !!! my 3c …

Sounds interesting. Do you have a link for it?

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Andy.

[gregbradley]

Cheers Steve.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

I updated the image, attenuated the stars a little and reduced the highlights of the O111 areas a bit more.

Same link.

Greg.

[RickS]

You've captured the Blue Star Cloud very nicely there. Nebulae look great too.

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Rick. I look forward to your image with this magnificent scope. I always found it was one of those scopes (like an FSQ) that good images were easy to obtain from it. It does everything so well.

Greg.

[IanP]

Don't remember where did I get it from, so I attached is the tool. Rename it to StarRemoving.rar and add it to Photoshop. You will see it after you open Windows-Actions. It will be in the same tree as StarTools (if you have them) :hi:

[IanP]

And here Greg is your picture with the tool applied with 59% opacity .. hope you will like it .. :)
http://www.4shared.com/download/ClOcu3wIba/SeagullNebulaLRGBHaO111redoV10.jpg? lgfp=3000

[gregbradley]

Thanks Ian. I downloaded it, renamed it to StarRemoving.rar. I copied and pasted it into the actions folder in Photoshop. It does not show when I open Photoshop. Normally an action is an .atn file and you load them using Load Actions which is on a drop down menu when you click on the triangle at the right top of the actions window.

How did you add it to Photoshop?

Greg.

[IanP]

The .rar file is an archive, you need to unzip it. The .atn file is inside .. :hi:

[Bassnut]

Pin sharp and excellent star colour Greg. The bright bits are still a bit blown though, a tad distracting

[gregbradley]

Ahaha! Thanks Ian.



Thanks Fred.

Yeah it must happened early on in the layers stage. I will go back to that point and correct it.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

I did a similar orientated image and looking image a few years ago. Then only last year I did another orientation and on both occasions I felt the composition looked odd. That said, I like your star colour, detail levels and look in general.

I think also the seagull nebula is the one at the bottom of the frame. I don't think the one in the centre of your frame has an official name. It might be the whacky racer though.

Nice to see you enthused and imaging again Greg. :thumbsup:

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Nice work Greg!:thumbsup:

Stars are spot on and good colour through the image.

Cheers,

Justin.

[gregbradley]

[QUOTE=Paul Haese;1169292]I did a similar orientated image and looking image a few years ago. Then only last year I did another orientation and on both occasions I felt the composition looked odd. That said, I like your star colour, detail levels and look in general.

I think also the seagull nebula is the one at the bottom of the frame. I don't think the one in the centre of your frame has an official name. It might be the whacky racer though.

Nice to see you enthused and imaging again Greg. :thumbsup:[/QUOTE

Yes I remember your image and it was definitely one of the images that inspired me one myself. Its a fabulous panorama of interesting objects.
This image is a crop as the composition didn't work out as well also. But this one I like as the blue spray of stars offsets the nebulas creating a frame that I like.



Thanks Justin. The autoguiding and tracking on this image was some of the absolute best I have ever gotten. The Ha and Luminance has FWHM 1.2 stars in it.

I have done a repro of this one taking into account the comments. I have tamed the blown out highlights better (the O111 is quite bright) and retained better colour balance with increased vibrance and contrast.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

The repro looks better Greg...a wonderful shot of the area mate, great job.

Mike

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Greg.

So sharp and so detailed.

The new telescope has big shoes to fill!

Ross.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Mike.




Thanks Ross. Yes it does. I started using it for the first time last night. So far it seems like an amazing instrument.

Greg.