Aria in Ara

[Peter Ward]

The SII data on this project is still not quite there...gee it's faint.. even with my RC16 at F6 I suspect it needs about 8 hours to really really make it sing.
(got two so far)

Anyway here is my Narrow Band colour (i.e. SII, Halpha, OIII) version to date.
(http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery431.html)

[JA]

Nothing to see here ..... Just your usual ultra-sharp, ultra contrasty image - Well done Peter:thumbsup:

BTW you called it "Aria in Ara", just curious, were you thinking of a specific aria to attribute to it? Nessun Dorma, E Lucevan' le stelle, Recondit Armonia, M'Appari, Casta Diva, Vaga Luna, or .....???? All faves BTW!

Best
JA

[atalas]

Beautiful Peter!love the contrast and the fact the colour is a little different.....an air of mystery I recon.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

"E lucevan le stelle" of course! :)

(Loosely translated "And the stars were shining" ) :D

[Peter Ward]

Ta Louie...yep...what to do with NB colour is always a mystery to me :)

[marc4darkskies]

Sorry Peter, notwithstanding the wonderful lum data, the colours miss the mark for me I'm afraid. Too bi-colour (magenta and cyan). And where's the green? Have you deliberately subdued it? Removing some magenta and bumping up the yellows would be a good start to making the colours richer. (I was able to get a much warmer & richer result with selective colour, curves, saturation and vibrance layers & ten minutes of fiddling :D).

[Peter Ward]

Yep. I often tell the Greens to bugger off. :)

Besides...where does it say all NB has to be green and golden hues?

That said I'll look at it again when I've got 8 hours of SII ;)

[marc4darkskies]

:) Well, the Davies NB aesthetic dictates that there SHALL be 1 dessertspoon of green, 1 tablespoon of gold, 2 tablespoons of blue & cyan, 1 teaspoon of yellow and a pinch of magenta (for authenticity). RGB stars are optional depending on taste. :P

[Peter Ward]

OK..the "MKR" version is now there (same URL) . :lol:

[marc4darkskies]

Yum! Repro looks great Peter! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Andy01]

Repro looks great Peter, much more to my MKR taste as well :)

[h0ughy]

well what can one say - with all that coloured icing let them eat cake

[Atmos]

Nice an sharp an contrasty :)

[multiweb]

I like the final better Peter. :thumbsup: Wasn't too keen on the stellar profiles on the previous.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc, Marcus, David, Col, Andy....might make it to the MKR final this Sunday after all :)

P.S. Shortly after I uploaded this...the 4Tb hard disk in my PC holding that image ...and much, much more data.... went bits-up (:doh:)...trying to recover what I can now...

[Atmos]

OUCH!
I am one of those that needs to get more redundancy in my images. Don't keep enough backups. This is a reality for all photographers :/

[RobC]

That's a great image Peter. Hard to believe you imaged it from Sydney.

Cheers

Rob

[Peter Ward]

Ta.

NB is virtually immune to light pollution...I often get h-alpha data with a fairly full moon in the sky to boot. Unfortunately NB isn't suited to all subjects.

That said...NGC 6188 is probably one of the best for NB treatment :thumbsup:


Fortunately all the .fits files are on a different machine :prey:

[Placidus]

Excellent work, Peter. Much subtle detail in the fainter passages.

You've captured lots of SII.

[alpal]

Hi Peter,
that's such a great image.
That Alluna scope is really singing.

cheers
Allan

[topheart]

Sharp as a tack as always Peter!
Cheers,
Tim

[willik]

I just like the wider field of view on NGC 6188 gives out more detail
but still a nice image.
Martin.

[Peter Ward]

Oh no....Another wide field wuss....:) (But agreed Martin Pugh’s FSQ image of this is extremely impressive)



Thanks Tim



Maybe I should call the ‘scope Luciano?



Thanks M&T...I’m still gathering more SII...some interesting structures there.

[Stevec35]

Nicely done Peter. I'm not totally convinced by the colour but the detail looks great.

Cheers

Steve

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Steve...I suspect this is still a work in progress...as I agree on the colour. The SII is too thin...but tantalising when you get some depth to it.

The H-alpha simply booms in...taming it is proving to be interesting.:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Its coming along nicely, slow cooked like I often seem to do!

Perhaps try your reducer for the S11 to beef up the signal.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Ta Greg...grabbled some 5 hours of SII now...plus made a radical departure from
the Hubble Palette to a more eye-soothing gold/turquoise tone....but have to say am now very pleased with the colour :)

still at the same URL (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery431.html)

[Atmos]

I do prefer the new colour palette :)

[AstroBogan]

This is just awe-inspiring.

[Peter Ward]

:thanx: Glad you like the view



I suppose you could call it a remapped Hubble, as the SII, Ha OIII still starts off mapped as RGB...but the clearly Aussie thing to do is to then map green to gold :D

[Lognic04]

Amazing!!! Looks so surreal!!!