M16 - horgb

[codemonkey]

RGB stars, nebulae is a blend of a bicolour (H&O) and an RGB image.

Gettin' sick of imaging nebulae to be honest, need to get back to galaxies, but I haven't been getting the requisite combo of good seeing and dark skies, so nebulae it is!

This is just over 31hrs of data. The H was shot around full moon with lots of fog on much of the data... I would have thrown it out, except when I integrated just the data that was not fog affected, I was getting weird black spots in the image :shrug:

Big one here -> https://www.astrobin.com/full/kqmari/

[JA]

Look out Hubble. Well done Lee:thumbsup:

Best
JA

[marc4darkskies]

Impressive and beautiful Lee! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Out at my observatory at the moment and only on my little phone :doh:..but regardless, I can tell this is a keeper! ;) strange framing :confuse3:...look forward to checking it out (..for worms :whistle: :lol:) on the big screen when I'm at home :)

Mike

[pmrid]

Did you know that the Pillars of Creation no longer exist - according to some Spitzer scientists. They claim it was blown apart by a supernova but we wont see the effects for another 1000 or so years.

[lazjen]

At the rate I feel 2020 is going, that's probably just next year. :p

Lee: nice details in the image. Colours are funky weird, but not in a bad way. :)

[codemonkey]

haha thanks JA :-)



Thanks Marc!



Cheers Mike! I almost feel like you'd be disappointed if I didn't leave some worms there for you to find... that's my excuse anyway. I pushed this one hard, using 3 different kinds of "sharpening"... but then I basically always push that stuff hard, so that's no surprise.



I did not know that, thanks for the insight :-)



lol. That would be the icing on the faecal spongecake.

Thanks Chris :-)

[ChrisV]

Supercool image

[Nikolas]

Love this rendition the colours are awesome

[Atmos]

It looks great Lee apart from the wormies ;)
Excellent resolution and detail.

[strongmanmike]

Even on a good monitor, it looks great Lee :thumbsup: and no worms on my radar ;)...the three cheeses approach has done a fine job :thumbsup:

Purely out of interest, what is the reason behind the framing you have chosen?

Mike

[Camelopardalis]

Great rendition, Wormsy :thumbsup:

(that’s the deconvolving astro equivalent of Banksy)

[telecasterguru]

Very deep as you would expect.

[codemonkey]

Thanks Chris :-)



Thanks Nik! I struggle with NB colours so I'm glad you like it :-)



:lol: Thanks Colin :)



Thanks Mike :-)

I needed to capture this at this orientation to work in with other targets I was imaging on the same nights, but as for the composition, I liked having the pillars 1/3 in from the right and had intended to bring out more faint stuff on the left, but while the data is clean enough to support it, I just didn't really like it when I did that :shrug:



:lol: Thanks Dunk! Wormsy has a nice ring to it.



Thanks :-)

[Andy01]

Great image Lee, and well done on breaking away from the traditional framing - this would make a wonderful double page spread in a magazine, or
cover wraparound - with text overlaid on the left hand side. :D

[topheart]

A fresh perspective.
Very good!!
Cheers,
Tim

[Peter Ward]

What's not to like? Nice tight FWHM'S, velvety smooth nebula, muted eye pleasing palette.
Good one. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Slawomir]

What a fantastic image Lee. Detail is exquisite, and so is framing and the colours. One of the best images of the pillars my eyeballs have looked at. Really well done :thumbsup:

[vlazg]

I agree with all the above Lee, awesome and i do like the framing.
Well done

[strongmanmike]

True, the left half would be the back of the book cover and the book title would be in the space above the pillars :thumbsup:...very ingenious Lee...now.. you just need to write a book..?.. on making data taken with a little inexpensive 8" scope look as good as data from a bigger much more expensive scope...you could call it "Big data from small scopes - uncovering the detail" :)

Mike

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Very cool. Love the details. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
How do you find the new mount?

[Placidus]

That's just perfect Lee. One of the best. All our favourite features are sharp and clear. The long exposure really paid off. Excellent processing.

MnT

[codemonkey]

Thanks very much Andy :-) I had the feeling you'd appreciate the composition.



Thanks very much Tim :-)



Thanks Peter



Thanks very much Sauvi, that's very kind of you to say :-)



Thanks George! :D



:lol:



Thanks :) Still got some little quirks to iron out with the mount, but by and large it seems to be working fine which is a relief. Seems to behave better at some points in the sky than others so I need to work on that, but while my targets are in the good spots I'm just gonna ignore it for now.



Thanks very much guys, really appreciate that :-)

[strongmanmike]

Hey don't laugh...I'm serious :shrug: :computer:

Mike :)

[codemonkey]

You're too kind Mike :thanx: A lot can be done with a measly 8" but I'm not so sure I should be the one writing books on it!

[gregbradley]

I agree with Mike. Your images consistently surprise me as I would associate that kind of quality with only the very best of gear.

I think its also important to realise that as in this pursuit we often get gear lust and its easy to chase a better setup and forget about how good the one we sometimes have is.

Greg.