First M8 for the season!

[Garyh]

Hi folks,
Nice to see clear skies hanging around for a few days..:thumbsup:
Seeing hasn`t been the best but thats not stopping me giving the 20D a good run..
Here is my first go at M8 and is about 1hr-15min worth at iso 800..Would have been more but silly me half asleep left the cap on and took a extra 10 darks instead of 10 lights...:P .
Very happy with the finished image...:thumbsup:.
Very slight deconvolution then the usual processing in PS.
Only noise reduction was a despeckle and that was faded.
Image cropped then resized to 50% for posting..
All comments most welcome..
cheers Gary

[renormalised]

Nice one, Gary:)

Great colour and the guiding looks spot on:)

[AlexN]

sweet shot Gary. Lovely colors!

The fine details in the outer area of the nebulosity is very good.

[Tamtarn]

Good detail there Gary. Like the colour.

Would have been nice to see what difference the extra 10 frames made to the result :doh:
Anyway you can add to your data next time out :)

We would be happy with one night imaging at the moment. One image in nearly 3 months is testing our patience. :lol:

[Garyh]

Thanks for the comments Renormalised, Alex, Barb and Dave!
Barb and Dave, 3 months without imaging really would suck! Hope you get some nice clear skies soon down your way!
cheers Gary

[RB]

Wow, what a beautiful shot !!

Well done Gary, shame about the extra frames but it's still a stunning result.

:thumbsup:

[Matty P]

Lovely image Gary!

The colours are just stunning.

Very well done. :thumbsup:

[leon]

Hey Gary that is pretty cool, nice work, plenty of detail , clean and clear, certainly worth a nail in the wall.

Leon

[richardo]

Excellent Gaz, Excellent!
Great to see you've already dialed in the new camera.

Top stuff.:thumbsup:

Cheers
Rich

[Ric]

A fine image Gary, there is some lovely depth to the nebulosity as well as very natural colours.

Cheers

[EzyStyles]

Amazing M8 Gary. Colours are very nice with a bit of purple tint. Im amazed it came from the 6". Now move onto M16, M8 :P

[Jen]

:clap::clap::clap: nice pic thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Thanks Andrew! I will have to add on to it with some more data!
But yes I am a happy camper..:thumbsup:



Cheers Matt! Didn`t have to do much with the color balance at all..:)
thanks again
Gary



Thanks Leon very much appreciated!
Gazz



Thanks Rich! yes I am enjoying the new toy!
Starting to get the hang of it in the dark..;)
cheers Gary



Thanks Ric! glad you enjoyed having a look!
:thumbsup:





Thanks Eric!...:thumbsup:
Yeah M16-M17 are on the list in the next month!
Want to redo the DARK TOWER (sounds scary hey) with a few hours data and add some more to this one...
Thanks again and I shall be giving my Eric modded 20D lots of work!
cheers



Thankyou Jan! always appreciated and enjoy sharing..:)
cheers Gary

[Jeffkop]

Great picture :thumbsup:

If I can come up with stuff that good ... well ... its straight to the pool room!!!!

Looks awesome

Jeff

[jase]

You nailed that one Gary. Shame about the other subs though. Excellent work, well done.

[skeltz]

Lovely gary, lovely colors look good to:thumbsup:

[Escortitis]

Hi Gary,

Firstly I love the pic, it's a brill shot of a great target.

I did the same target on Tuesday and got some ok data which I processed in Iris. I would like to pick your brain on these colors. I'm not familiar with your equipment, is your canon a 20da or just a 20d? (not 'just a', you know what I mean!! lol) I am intrigued with where all this blue is coming from in my picture. My canon is an unmodded 300d, the scope is a 12" newt and I don't use any filters or flatteners. When I processed it I use Jim Solomons recipe for RGB of 1, 0.51, 0.62. When in PS, I do saturate a bit but I don't change the color balance.

I would love to get some feedback from yourself and others on what the contributing factors are giving my image a lot more blue than your image, as an image of Eta Carina I posted earlier this year showed the same 'condition'.

P.S. Welcome back to me, I've been under my rock for a few months!:welcome: LOL!

Regards,

George.

[Jen]

:welcome::welcome::welcome: HI George Welcome back well i think the pic of Eta Carina looks great (not that i can even take a pic of that lol) :thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Hi George, Sorry for not answering your question earlier as I have been away and have missed it....
My camera is modded so having more red is not a problem for me. If you have a unmodded camera I find stretching the red channel using the curves function to be the easiest way. Keep a few nodes around the same point as the background to keep the background color balance changing and above the brightest areas of the neb and then pull the red channel up to you get the desired result..
Here is your image with a few minutes tweking doing this..
Hope thats helpful...:thumbsup:
Nice image of M8 too!
cheers Gary

[Escortitis]

Very helpful thanks Gary. Curves are not my favorite subject, and one of those things I have to go and do some more tut's on. The tweaks you did on my image do make all the differance. Thanks muchly.

Thanks Jen, I'll have to get Gary to work his magic on that one too!

Cheers,

George.