Prawn Nebula IC 4628

[Geoff45]

I've been playing with this data on and off for the best part of 2 years, never happy with the processing, but always thinking there was a decent image lurking in there somewhere. I've finally got something I think is worth posting.

Image here: http://www.astrobin.com/full/194211/0/
Telescope: Televue NP101is
Mount: Astro-Physics 900GTO
Camera: QSI 540wsg
Exposure: R (5 x 10m), G (6 x 10m), B(6 x 10m), L(6 x 10m) for a total of 3h50m
FOV: 96' x 96'
Date: August 2013
Processed in PixInsight

Geoff

[cometcatcher]

Lovely shot. It looks very very nice.

[alistairsam]

Looks great Geoff.
very smooth. Colours look great, especially star colours.
Perhaps a bit more contrast and saturation, but then that's upto one's taste of course.

Cheers
Alistair

[strongmanmike]

Another fine image Geoff...you getting good at this :D

This object isn't imaged in LRGB very often, we are used to the higher contrast finer details supplied by narrowband filters, so this is actually very good :thumbsup:

Mike

[topheart]

Lovely colours....a real good processing job!

Cheers,
Tim

[multiweb]

Great shot Geoff. Gorgeous colors! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Thanks Kevin


Thanks Alistair. Actually I had to push quite a lot to get where it's at. Any more and it started looking artificial. As Mike mentions below it's better as a narrowband object if one is going for contrast.


Thanks Mike. Practice helps.


Thanks Tim


Thanks Marc. Yeah, the colours did come out quite well, didn't they?

[multiweb]

Terrific. Best RGB I've seen.

[Placidus]

The star colours really make it. You've broken the Magenta barrier. Lovely.

[RickS]

A lovely, well cooked Prawn, Geoff! I agree wholeheartedly with the chorus of praise for the colours in this rendition.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Geoff45]

Thanks Mike, Trish and Rick. Star colours courtesy of the saturation boost in the PIxInsight CurvesTransformation. It really works very well.
Geoff