IC 4628 narrowband

[rat156]

Hi All,

After a fair bit of processing I've managed to get this to looking like I wanted it to. The stars are all white, waiting another clear night to add some RGB colour to them, but I live in Melbourne, so that may be next week or next year...

Anyway, 12 hours of data, 8 Ha and two each of SII and OIII.

I removed the stars whilst processing the image and have left them out of one of the posted images, I like it, but know others won't, but they also won't like the white star version either.

Starry version larger here (http://astrob.in/full/196134/0/)

Unstarry version here (http://astrob.in/full/196135/0/)

Share and Enjoy.

Stuart

[Andy01]

Absolutely drop dead georgeous image(s) Stuart. The starless version is so very 3D I could fall in to it. Beautiful use of colour and great composition.

Well done sir :)

Andy

[Slawomir]

Wow, beautiful images Stuart. I love the colours, well done!

I prefer the one with stars, as starless astro images look somehow lifeless to me.

Awesome work :thumbsup:

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Works of art Stuart!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsu p:

Unstarry version for the wall.
Stars seem to add some depth to the image though.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Atmos]

As an astronomy picture, the starry version. As an artistic piece of work that I would hang up on a wall, unstarry. Agree with Justin on that.

Fantastic job either way, so much detail to get lost in.

[batema]

Both look stunning to me. How do you remove the stars so you can just process the nebula if that's ok to ask or if you could point me in the direction of a tutorial.

[troypiggo]

The colours are so rich. Gorgeous. Starless looks like an oil painting.

[rat156]

Hi Mark,

I stumbled across a programme called Straton. It's quite cheap, and works pretty well, it doesn't handles the big stars, but then nothing does, normally I wouldn't worry too much because a star will go back there anyway. I've only just started using it and have yet to experiment with the settings too much. So no SOP for using it yet, but maybe in the future, I also have to contact the programmer about some buggy behaviour.

Cheers
Stuart

[codemonkey]

Awesome work, Stuart... one day I hope to produce images half as good as that!

[Placidus]

Top shelf. Sharp and clear and smooth. The colours are very fine indeed.

[Stevec35]

Excellent Stuart! Wish I could do narrow band images that good.

Cheers

Steve

[RickS]

A very nice result, Stuart. I quite like starless NB.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Paul Haese]

Very striking image Stuart. I really like the feathery detail that is shown throughout the image. Colour palette is good too. Well done in my opinion.

[topheart]

I really like it!

Well done!

Cheers,
Tim

[jase]

An absolutely cracking image Stuart. I enjoyed both renditions. Details are razor sharp. You've certainly got your set up humming. A benchmark narrowband image for sure.

[Bassnut]

Sublime, most excellent colour and sharpness Stuart.

[Octane]

And, that, folks, is how it's done.

Remarkable.

H

[rat156]

Hi All,

Thanks to everyone for their kind comments. Haven't had much time to cruise the forum this week after posting this, too busy fixing a gearbox and adding a Watts link to a race car, so I was a bit surprised by the number of comments. Normally I'd try to respond to each, but in this case, just a group thanks will have to suffice.

Cheers
Stuart

[MGTechDVP]

Thats amazing.. Seeing images like this makes me think that I got to get myself a cooled CCD.

[rustigsmed]

that is beautiful, nice one Stuart.

Russ

[Rex]

Nothing to say that hasn't already been said Stuart, simply stunning amount of detail in there.

[Regulus]

Really impressive result.
Because the star field isn't that dense they don't crowd the subject, which is good.
Love the colours and the depth.
Trev