1st real shot with new 127 APO - M20

[JohnH]

A bit of high cloud around but the moon was gone (mostly), not original I know but a bit of a standard candle for comparison purposes - this is M20 - 16*3 mins at iso 1600 on the canon 20D, ICNR, stacked and aligned in IP, levels and colour saturation (non-moded camera) adjusted in PS. This is 1/4 res to fit in the file size limit. I am very pleased with the perfomance of this scope, does need careful focussing and will benefit from a flattener/reducer. I will post a detail shot at full res later when I have a chance to process...

[renormalised]

Nice piccie...good colour:)

[h0ughy]

ooohhh that is promising. Nice work

[gregbradley]

Hi John,

Nice image. See if there is some colour in the data for the stars.
It often has to be broought out.

The easiest way I know is to use Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions and one of these is "increase star colour".

If you want, you can email me the image and I can see if there is any colour in the star data.

Stars need to be processed by themselves. There are several ways you can do it.

Greg.

[jase]

Well done John. Structure and colour saturation of the neb looks good. As Greg mentions the stars don't show much colour, though I don't find this a distraction from the image. Look forward to seeing more with the APO.

[JohnH]

Thanks guys - I will try to find time to process better - this was a quickie due to a busy w/e. I think it shows promise - I was happy to see the details in the neb.

[Tamtarn]

The 127APO looks like a winner John picked up lots of detail. Gives a very nice field.

As you say a bit more time on the processing you should be able to improve on what is already a fine image.

[JohnH]

Re-processed and cropped...

[gregbradley]

Very good. It probably could benefit from a light sharpening especially if you lasooed the neb only and applied a light sharpening to that only.

Greg.