My rendition of M20

[marc4darkskies]

Hi All!

In spite of the minus 1.4 degrees C my frosted thermometer reached during Saturday night :screwy: , I managed my second colour shot of my astro imaging career.

Hope you enjoy.

http://www.pbase.com/image/82314316/large (http://www.pbase.com/image/82314316/large)

Details and waffle underneath the image.

Cheers, Marcus

[RB]

Very nice image Marcus, well done !

Man what a great setup, looking forward to more from you.

[Ric]

A very lovely image Marcus, great colours, pinpoint stars and some top detail.

I must agree as well your setup is an impressive one.

Cheers

[jase]

Marcus, it has been a long time between posts. ;) A marked improvement on your first (NGC2070).

Indeed, slightly oversampled (though I don't know what your conditions where on the night - obviously more the 1 arcsec). Oversampled data is easily fixed with a few iterations of deconvolution to keep objects looking tight.

Your processing needs more work, you've really black clipped the red channel and subtly the green. I suspect you've set the black point to early on in your processing routine which has caused this. This is usually one of the last things I do before finalisation.

I also feel you could have brought the colours out a little more. Perhaps the use of the non-linear stretch using PS shadow/highlights tool on the chrominance data instead of curves or hue/saturation controls. You may also wish to try different ways of introducing your luminance data so you maintain a balance of luminance resolution and chrominance data.

Look forward to seeing more images with this great ota/mount/camera combination.:thumbsup:

[marc4darkskies]

Thanks for the tips Jase. I had another go at processing. I think this version looks better.

http://www.pbase.com/image/82314316/large (http://www.pbase.com/image/82314316/large)

I brought out the colour more (hopefully not too much though) and sharpened things up a tad.

Cheers, Marcus

[strongmanmike]

Boy such crappy equipment Markus, how do you cope? :P

Very nicely imaged, I can see some great work is going to be coming from you as time goes by.

That TOA looks neeeeeearly as sexy as my AP Starfire :D

Mike

[Garyh]

Nice Markus! much nicer with the second process!!! pitty the seeing let all that fine gear down!!
Still it is a fine image of m20 and you are doing a fine job of your processing!
I hate to think what my first LRGB images would look like...lol
cheers and hope you get some good seeing soon!!

[marc4darkskies]

Thanks mate!!



Sexy??? I hadn't noticed :whistle:
"Nearly" as sexy as a Starfire??!! :fight:
Cheers, Marcus :lol:

[Dietmar]

hi Marcus,

that is a supercool rendition of the trifid nebula!
perfect round stars, very nice colors and huge amount of details!
WHOW!