A Narrow-band Eagle

[Retrograde]

Hi all,

I captured this last month across 5 nights with only an hour or so per night average as it was up late and I had to work most days (and I captured another object earlier in the evenings). I ended up with 4hrs 45 minutes of useable dual-band data on this object from Bortle 7 skies.

Telescope: MN190
Camera: ZWO2600mc
Filter: Antlia dual-band ALPT

Hi Res available here: Astrobin Messier 16 (https://www.astrobin.com/full/efy4qa/B/)

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out for a limited capture.
I think I really prefer this pallette with Ha being red rather than burnt-orange but of course everyone has different tastes. I've probably overdone the saturation a bit but :shrug:.

Comments and critiques welcome. :)

Pete

[Startrek]

Pete,
Lovely M16 and I agree this palette is a welcome change from the brown / tan and blue.
Nicely captured and processed (Unfortunately IIS at 200KB doesn’t do it justice , Astrobin version is excellent )
Well done !!
Martin

PS: I use a similar rig in Sydney, 8” f5 KH Carbon fibre Newt , 2600MC and Antlia ALPT filter for OSC NB imaging

[strongmanmike]

That's a beauty Pete :thumbsup: Different colour palette but dramatic and bold and hope others bothered to click on the full res version, it's more than a little epic :thumbsup:

Mike

[petershah]

Not a pallet we are used to seeing....I love it...great to see

[Retrograde]

Thanks Martin much appreciated!
I assume you are back from your OS holiday?

It took me quite a long time in PS to get the colour palette close to what I wanted. I have been playing around with the Star tools trial version (partly due to all the different colour versions you are able to produce) as I thought it might be quicker and easier but I am yet to properly come to grips with the colour module in particular.

[Retrograde]

Thank-you for the positive comments, Mike!




Thanks Peter!

[Startrek]

Yep I’m back home, unfortunately
Imaging M17 tonight
You’re not the only person who has experienced difficulty with Startools colour module, a lot of folk find it too difficult. Broadband colour is fairly straightforward, Narrowband is more challenging. I must admit it has come a long way from the early days but still requires more refinement.
Startools shines with high fidelity signal processing and noise mitigation that’s for sure !!
Cheers
Martin