Spider Bro

[oska]

An attempt at more than an experiment.

4hrs each S H O 30s 250g
1hrs each R G B 30s 139g
3hrs L 15s 139g

ASI1600MM + Antlia pro 3nm. -10C
EON85 560mm

NINA & PI

ABE, NoiseXterminator, Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch

LRGBcombination + light star reduction(BB)
(SHO)LRGBcombination
(HO)NBRGBCombination + extra light star reduction(BB)

As always, criticism, tips most welcome.

[oska]

And a poorly stretched one that had too much hydrogen (4hrs of 90s 200g) and a severe calibration issue, caused by the slightest rotation of the camera (bumped?) between lights & darks, fixed later by registering with "nearest neighbour" interpolation in either APP or PI

[xelasnave]

Truely magnificent John and an absolute pleasure to look at.
Alex

[AstroViking]

Great set of images, John.

The blue one I like the best, being all swirly and detailed and so many things for the eye to focus on.The green one (...Combination_SR1) looks suitable creepy and plague-like...

Cheers,
V

[oska]

Thanks Alex.

Cheers Steve, I couldn't decide on how I wanted to combine them, I like the SHO the best too ;)

[Nikolas]

Middle one is defintely the best

[oska]

Thanks Nik.

[Kuz]

Excellent capture john . I like personally like the middle image.

[Crater101]

These are all good, but I do like the blue one the most, the colour is superb!

[oska]

Thanks Kuz.

Thanks Warren.

[AdamJL]

I like the core in that first one. Good work!

[oska]

Thanks Adam

[Doogs38]

Superb wide-field, John. I envy your skies mate. I’m a sucker for palettes with blue so that’s my fave. That said, I wonder if it’s possible to blend some of the blue image with the red/green to draw out some blue colour in and around the core? The green image reminds me of what I see visually with my 14” dob. Love your work :thumbsup: Alex

[oska]

Cheers Alex! Ok, after a little swearing :lol:

[xelasnave]

Excellent John.
Alex

[Doogs38]

Lolz, your PI swear-jar will be as full as mine John :lol: That’s excellent John, you truly nailed the blend in IMHO and the advantage of a mono+filter setup is shining through. Did you accomplish that with pixelmath and masks? Alex

[oska]

Cheers Alex^2

I tried a whole bunch of things, but from memory I think I made 2 pixel math combinations of the SHO & HOrgb 50/50 & 60/40 and then combined those, I think. Then made a softened green mask (BB) and then curves: a, blue and a touch of desaturation, I think. I kept the SHO open as I tweaked it until the blue was roughly the same.