A deep Lagoon

[xelasnave]

From the Askar rig..lost all my S11 data and patched this together from about two hours of data.

alex

[JA]

Well done Alex- lovely image:thumbsup:
I'm not sure about the circles in the bottom left and top right- perhaps processing/editing to reduce exposure, not sure. If so, you could set some feathering to the circle to make a gentle transition.



Best
JA

[xelasnave]

Thanks JA.
Yes I see them now:)
Must have had my burn tool set too hard trying to darken things there...
I hope to get more data tonight so here's hoping.
Thanks for drawing my attention to my mistake.

alex

[glend]

Love the cloud saturation and detail.:thumbsup:

[oska]

I love the palette Alex and great detail. Very cool.

[xelasnave]

Thanks Glen.
Thanks John.

alex

[sharkbite]

Beautiful Alex!

[Doogs38]

You're on fire, Alex. The Askar and 2600(?) combo frames M8 very nicely, with a terrific amount of detail all the way to the core. Did you apply an HDR technique of some sort? Alex

[xelasnave]

Hi Alex

Thanks.

Rig..Askar 130, ZWO 2600 mono, OAG, filters HA and O11,

I stacked both together and used that as L and stacked each separately to combine L Ha and O11 in StarTools. I used HRD but backed off a great deal. The final image I adjusted in Photoshop. I use the dodge and burn tool to bring up features both light and dark spots ....
I tried to get more data (S11) but the Moon played havoc with my guiding so doing a decent/complete image will have to wait a while.

alex

[RIX83]

Awesome work!

[Startrek]

Alex,
6 months ago I evaluated HDR in ST 1.7 and HDR in ST 1.8 on a test object M8 Lagoon and posted my findings on the ST forum. Personally I find HDR ST 1.8 way to aggressive on large structures like M8 , even when backing off quite a bit , HDR ST 1.7 was excellent and gave far more precise control of your processing . I did receive a comment from Ivo about this and gave some advice on HDR 1.8 which did help a little bit. I rarely use HDR now and usually skip it and go straight to Sharpen. Now I only use HDR ST 1.8 on globular clusters and nebula with smallish bright cores like M17 to tame the brightness in the core areas ( not big bright large structured cores like M8 and M16 etc…)
My recent rendition of M8 in Deep Space had no HDR applied just Sharpen and SV Decon. I found skipping HDR produced a better more fine detailed result in the central core region. But I’m saying that not all data sets are the same and don’t let me sway you from using HDR , it does have a use.
I just thought I would share my experiences with HDR

Best always
Martin

[Sunfish]

Looks great.
A lot of dark dust and light wooly detail.

[xelasnave]

Thanks Rick and Ray.

AND Thanks Martin. I thought there was something not right but it sure is great to have you indicate I was not imagining things.

I may get some more data and try again tonight...got RASA, Askar and Eighty ready to go...thanks so much.

alex