Athletic Fowl

[Addos]

Some data from June with the 7nm filters on our favourite southern chook!


~27hrs total


Higher res: https://www.astrobin.com/y8kcbq/

[strongmanmike]

Lovely, pleasing, clean looking image, nicely processed :thumbsup:

Just checked out your AstroBin album, some really nice looking images there, particularly like your Whirling Banana, I recall when you first posted that too, cool composition.

Mike

[Addos]

Thanks Mike! Thanks for checking out my album too, the Whirling Banana is one of my faves :)

[marc4darkskies]

Not bad Adam! Pleasing colors. I'm assuming the HSO palette?
I prefer the one with stars :)

[Addos]

Cheers Marcus! Glad you like the colour blend! Its actually more SHO, but with extensive use of the other channels as scalers :)


I'm usually with you on the star versions, but I like the wispy bits of Oiii that show up a lot clearer in the starless making it look a little 'steamy' :)

[marc4darkskies]

Heresy! Blasphemer! :lol: it's the blessed Hubble SHO palette but you mixed the colour channels and balance? <gasp> :question:

So, it's not an SHO image any more, but it's still a handsome image. Confusing, but compelling. :lol:

[Dave882]

Wow what a beautiful image! Stunning colour and detail that draws you in deep!! I’m also not really a fan of starless versions, but I agree there’s something very beautiful about this one. I could absolutely imagine that hanging on my wall

[strongmanmike]

Hey Adam, I understand the camera you use is a mono camera and has tiny 2.32 micron pixels, do you image un-binned or bin 2X2?

Mike

[Addos]

Lol :) This is science/ art, not religion so no such thing as blasphemy here :D.
Sort of - its predominately done through pixelmath rather than chancombine and curves. on this one I did apply a slight curve to the Oiii before combining, mainly to tighten up the low end contrast.

[Addos]

thanks dave! always so generous with your comments :)

[Addos]

Hey mike, I always put detailed acquisition details in my astrobin image, which is partly why I get lazy with it here :)

I only ever image in 2x2 with this rig, higher dynamic range and 24mb subs vs ~90mb; plus i'm limited to ~1.1"/px by the aperture and bin2 with this camera and this scope gives me an imaging resolution of exactly that anyway :)

[oska]

Great shot Adam. So very deep and the colours are great ;)

[Stephane]

Lovely shot there Adam. The colours and detail are phenomenal. From a distance, it looks nice and smooth; up close, it's satisfyingly sharp. A difficult balance you've achieved so well. Looks like Astrobin likes the image too!

[marc4darkskies]

Glad you have a sense of humour Adam! :) Been looking at and playing with your image again today in PS :nerd: ... I really do like it a lot! :thumbsup: