M17 - cropped

[multiweb]

8x4min - QHY8 - Autoguided with ED80/PHD on G11 - Celestron 5" Newtonian. Seeing was reasonably good but the air unusually warm and humid. Bit hazy. Cropped to fit under 200k. I had planned the night to have more subs and longer exposures to complement but I had to stop momentarily to do a meridian flip. When I got back on tracking I blew a fuse (litteraly) and had to pack up as I was on the field with no spares. :doh: Something new to add to my check list. Hope you like it. Thanks for looking.

[jase]

Marc, there is some lovely detail present in this image, though I feel your colour balance needs some tweaks. The red channel dominates the image (seen in the attachments - PS histogram). I've highlighted the "whitespace" with a red transparent block for reference. If you raise the red channel black point to around ~27 points, I think you'll notice an improvement. Perhaps also tweak the blue a little. Overall, a great image. Thanks for sharing.

[RB]

Shame about the fuse Marc, what a shame.
Agree with Jase, it's a great image overall and some very nice detail hidden in there.
If you tweak the channels like he suggests you'll have a cracker image.

:thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Yep... as the saying goes when it rains it pours. Here's the last sub of the series. A picture's worth a thousand words :lol:



Thanks for the tips Jase. Glad you like it. I'll spend some more time reprocessing it.

[beren]

:thumbsup: Very nice Mark heaps of detail makes me eager to go further afield as well.....actually that last sub looks cool :)

[winensky]

Lovely image. Pity about the fuse and unfortunately, the field isn't the only place where a fault can shut you down!

[strongmanmike]

That last sub is APOD material for sure, send it in, I recon they may be interested? :doh: :P

The completed image is pretty good too :thumbsup:

Mike

[multiweb]

Thanks for the comments guys. Here's the full field at http://www.multiweb.com.au/astro/M17.jpg . Bit more details but my star shapes are still distorded the wider I get. Still some figuring out to do with my field flattening and collimation.