NGC 6611 Eagle nebula

[spearo]

Hello,

last night's (this morning's) efforts.

C9.25 F/10 on CG5 guided by William Optics Zenistar 80mm using Guidedog
Canon EOS 20Da, 9 frames (out of 16) of 8 minute exposures at ISO 800

Should have tried slightly longer exposures. and i fear the focus might be a tad off not sure.

Anyways, its a definite improvement for me comparing my last shot of the same target last year.

now to get some sleep...
frank

[FOOTPRINT]

Hi Frank,
A very good effort considering the moon is 3/4 full, but maybe a bit over the hill at that time of the morning, great detail, good colour, ive reprocessed it a bit,see what you think.

cheers.........Jim

[2020BC]

Very nice, indeed.:thumbsup:

[Ric]

Great image Frank, lovely detail. The Eagle is always such a great subject to image, I'm looking forward to imaging this one as well.

Cheers

[glasseyes]

You've captured this very well Frank. I really like the colour and the detail in the Pillars.
Great work ! :thumbsup:

[spearo]

Thanks everyone!
(i've now had a whopping 45 minutes of sleep so feel all refreshed...:lol: )

Thansk Jim, Bill, Ric and John.

Jim, Thanks for tweaking it up! I struggled a bit with this one in terms of black point settting. I only imaged after the moon had set so i didnt have to worry about skyglow from the moon (i've now done that two nights in a row and I'm beat!). I looked long and hard at the pattern of faint red nebulosity to see if it was indeed sky glow or vignetting but in the end because of the pattern i thought that probably the 20Da with it's sensitivity for red spectrum had probably picked up some nebulosity so i left it in.

I like the contrast of your reprocessed one better though. i think what i should probably do next time (when I have tracking i can trust) is go for more exposures including longer ones to really build up the faint stuff and thus enable a clearer contrast or show it up for being skyglow and remove it using the good old Gaussian blur trick. Until then i think your reprocessed version is better, thanks.:thumbsup:

cheers

frank

[matt]

Very nice Frank, and Jim:)

The 9.25 really is a great all-round performer:thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Hi Frank,
That is a very nice eagle there. colors look very natural and image very crisp.
I agree with Matt about the C9.25 they make great DSO imagers..cheers Gary

[Dennis]

Wow Frank - that is an eye popper! Lovely composition, processing and colours. Very, very pleasing to the eye - well done.

Cheers

Dennis

[atalas]

Very nice shot Frank!well done.

[ballaratdragons]

Nice, Frank.

Could be just my CRT monitor but I prefer the original image. Sorry Jim.

[spearo]

Thanks everyone,

I was looking at it on the work monitor (during my officially sanctionned break as per award-of course...;))

Looked a bit too washed out, more so than i could detect on my settings at home. I think Jim's reprocessing with a better dark set point is in line with what I need to do

That and get my monitor better calibrated !:lol:

Thanks everyone,

without good honest feedback i wouldnt make progress!
cheers

frank

[spearo]

Hi
hopefully this looks a bit better
cant quite tell on my home monitor
cheers
frank:thumbsup:

[Dr Nick]

Nice capture! Well done! ;)