M20 lrgb

[Benjamin]

Nothing special but glad I finally have M20 in LRGB and that my flats mostly worked! Small steps....
Did a close up and a framing with M21 following the amazing examples I've seen about the place.
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/full/ug6v0x/B/
Skywatcher 8" f4 'Quattro' CF Newtonian
ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro (Gain 76 Offset 15, -10º)
Skywatcher EQ6-R
Lum: 360x110s, 310x30s, 59x120s
Red: 150x30s
Green: 150x30s
Blue: 174x30s
Processed in Pixinsight

[Placidus]

Super-ulrra-good. The colours in both the nebulosity and the background stars are very fine.

[multiweb]

What he said. Unreal shot. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Benjamin]

Thanks Marc and Mike :-) I tried out a new PixInsight stretching routine as suggested to me by the amazing Lee Borsboom: a slight histogram stretch followed by an ArcSinh stretch to keep some colour intensity, which seemed very effective when adding the Luminance.

[Andy01]

Looks great Ben, lovely rendition of this timeless classic target :thumbsup:

[Benjamin]

Thanks Andy. Of course the inspiration for the wider framing came from...

[Atmos]

Great shot there Ben, you've gone quite deep and captured nice detail.

[Benjamin]

Thanks Colin. I was happy to get what I could but makes me excited about the possibilities of city based LRGB :-) Of course many many fine examples here of that but had to see for myself!

[gregbradley]

Whoa Ben that's a ripper. Love the open cluster version and the colour is divine.

Stars look great, that's a high quality image.

Greg.

[Benjamin]

That’s very kind of you to say Greg. With so many things in flux (back spacing from the CC, tilt, flats that work, LP, wind, blah blah) I feel rather lucky to get anything with all the constant juggling. I guess that’s backyard AP though, and it is still bloody good fun!

[Slawomir]

Georgous colours and fantastic detail - well done Ben :thumbsup:

[Benjamin]

Thanks Suavi. It’s been quite different for me being in LRGB world so happy to get a result out of it :-)

[codemonkey]

An excellent trifid, Ben! Glad I could help in some small way. I actually prefer the slightly-wider field due to that lovely cluster in the corner.

[rustigsmed]

that is really well done, i'd be stoked with that. one for the pool room for sure.

cheers
russ

[Ryderscope]

A lovely rendition of this well known object.

[Benjamin]

Thanks Lee, Russ and Rodney. I like the wider field more now too, which was an attempt to copy Andy Campbell’s framing. M21 does make a nice pairing.

[Paul Haese]

Nice image of this old favourite Ben. I like the colour balance and the background star fields a showing through well.

[Benjamin]

Thanks Paul :-) The back ground stars are rather intense! I was admiring Andy C’s image for almost the opposite reason but perhaps that is more to do with star size than intensity.