Messier 16

[Atmos]

I’ve taken a bit of time away from astro due to work and life recently but decided the best way back in is to get an image printed so I’ve recently gone and reprocessed (again) my Eagle Nebula data and got it printed. Framing it in the next few days :)
It does have some warts in the background but it needs some more exposure than the 4-5 hours of data and heavy stretching.

High Res version (https://www.astrobin.com/full/392373/0/)

[strongmanmike]

Regardless of the warts Col, it still looks spectakalar! :thumbsup:

Mike

[Andy01]

Love the colour palette! :)
I won’t pixel peep but it sure has some punch! :thumbsup:

[Stonius]

Fantastic! Straight to the pool room! :-)

[xelasnave]

Hi Colin
I dont post in this section because there are so many excellent images posted I could not keep up...however I must say that your image is most impressive.


I looked at your high res and blew it up until I had a near replica of the famous Hubble image and I would say that most folk in the street would find it difficult to tell which is yours and which is Hubble☺ But if you think you can improve on it please do so ..However I dont know where you could improve.
Alex

[Ryderscope]

Definitely worth the printing Colin. The colours work well and the image certainly draws the eye.

[Stevec35]

Looks pretty good to me Colin. That's excellent work for such a short exposure.

Steve

[Atmos]

Thanks Mike :thumbsup:



I tried getting it as close to SHO as possible, used the Hubble version a few times the pillars to see if I was close and it seems pretty close... minus the extreme resolution :lol:



Going straight into an exhibition, framed today :)



Thanks Alex. I've brought out every bit of resolution that I could from the data but there is some artefacts left over from star removal that I really need more exposure or better processing skills to do without :)



It looks really good printed if I say so myself :lol:



Thanks Steve :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Spectacular image Colin. I really like the colour combination.
Geoff

[Atmos]

Thanks Geoff, I did put a bit of time into trying to get the colour correct. Finding that the best way is to remove all of the stars before colour calibrating.

[batema]

Just beautiful.

[ChrisV]

Wow. That's alive Colin !!

[silv]

That's crazy great, Colin. "Alive", indeed.
Emotional art and science. Detail and mystery.

How does it look printed? Could you post "a photo of the photo" with a bit of wall around it?

Maybe, an hour here and there of doing just "the visual thing" is what your heart is telling you... The beauty of an open cluster filling your FOV by chance. The intimate and immediate experience of aimlessly cruising the starry sky.

[Placidus]

That's absolutely awesome Colin. Love the colours. Perhaps tending toward oversharpened, but still in the zone. Well done.

MnT

[Atmos]

Thanks Mark :thumbsup:



Thanks Chris :D



Hanging is tomorrow so I'll get a photo of it on a wall then :P

You are quite right there, I did want to get out and do a little visual from time to time but with what I'd call a swamp 300m away during summer (large body of stagnant water) the mosquitoes alone are enough to keep me locked up even a few hours before sunset :(



Thanks MnT. I did hit it with some 100 iterations of deconvolution so I definitely pushed it a bit ;)

[topheart]

Good one Colin!
Cheers,
Tim

[John Hothersall]

I nearly fell of my chair, colours woke me up, very bold spectacular M16. A bit too much green in spots but a fine result.

John.

[Atmos]

Thanks Tim :)



There is a good chance that’s because I do my processing on an uncalibrated laptop in varying lights :) I have tried to match the colour with HST versions which have some green.

[multiweb]

Really like the inner details and overall color you've got. Colour halos are distracting though. Did you do a star removal or did you have varying star sizes between channels?

[gregbradley]

I really like that. There's some interesting lighter brown/yellow patches in the bottom right that I haven't seen before.

Greg.

[Atmos]

I did star removal and I think those halos are caused largely by the amount of noise that I had in the SII and OII channels. I do plan on eventually reshooting this and going deeper/smoother :)



I have had to hit it with a lot of noise reduction due to the limited exposure so I'm not entirely sure how accurate the colours are in the darker patches. I attempted getting the white balance on the brighter core region as close as I could and then hoped for the best over the rest of it :)

[Decimus]

This is just brilliant, Colin. Looked at it over and over. Wow!:eyepop:

Cheers,
Richard