Lagoon and Trifid

[dvj]

Between hydrogen alpha projects at the moment, so I began processing some recent RGB data and combined it with previously shot Ha. This is a high resolution crop from a much wider field from the FSQ @ f/5.

High resolution image here: http://www.astrobin.com/178053/

Full frame wide field here: http://www.astrobin.com/177400/

The exceptional transparency in Coonabarabran really helped with the depth of the original data set.

jg

[gregbradley]

A great vista there John. You that misty O111 reflection nebula that surrounds the Lagoon as well and is not often shown.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Like I said on Facebook, this is a superb image and represents the gold standard. Great colour, detail and composition. Fantastic image.

[multiweb]

Great shot. Very vivid colors. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

A big thumbs up from me too, John!

[strongmanmike]

Ah huh! Pink-Magenta (yes!) in the Ha/Hb regions and some turquoise-green in the blue reflection neb around M20 = spot on.

Lovely work John, go vivid colours, yee haa :thumbsup:

Mike

[SkyViking]

Fantastic colours and great processing, really shows what's up there. Top image, John :thumbsup:

[jase]

Love it. Really needs to the full frame as opposed to the crop to show the golden hues of the milky way contrasting against the extended objects. The crop is a little too overpowering with magenta for me but its not my image. The cosmic foot looks pretty cool. A top shelf image indeed John.

[SimmoW]

Yes I love it John, esp the wider field with contrasting colours!

[Leonardo70]

Wonderful ... congrats !!

All the best,
Leo

[Slawomir]

Truly beautiful image, well done!

[cometcatcher]

Lovely image! I don't think the sky ever gets that good here.

[SpaceNoob]

Wow.... Outstanding image!

[Stevec35]

Superb image John!

Steve

[Ross G]

Great photo John.

Beautiful colours and composition.

Ross.

[dvj]

Hey Chaps,

Thanks for all of the positive comments. I totally agree about the magenta which can be over-powering I've reworked the image to shift the magenta more toward the red as per some of Mailin's work. Haven't posted that anywhere as I've been busy on other projects.

cheers,

j

[alpal]

Hi John,
I really like this image.
The Takahashi FSQ is such a good scope.

cheers
Allan

[rogerg]

Awesome colour and depth of detail :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

The thing I like about this image the most having imaged this area a million times myself (I promised myself I would stop exaggerating!) is the nice golden star colours in the star field lower down.

This is hard to achieve in my experience and can be a bit elusive.

Greg.

[marco]

Excellent field and lovely result John! On the excess of magenta you took already note, apart from that the image is really nice!
Clear skies
Marco

[Bilou]

Hello !

It's too much !!! ;)
Great ! I love it. :thumbsup:

[dvj]

Here is a version shifted more toward the red where magenta exists in the image. Not quite as overpowering. I think I need to get my eyes calibrated to RGB images after decades of grayscale.

http://www.astrobin.com/full/179238/0/

[strongmanmike]

All versions a super John, the subtle colour variants are largely semantics :thumbsup:

Mike

[Leonardo70]

Wonderful John, a perfect color !

All the best,
Leo