2008 Rho Oph

[montewilson]

Guys - Here is my 2008 Rho. It is a big leap forward from the 07 model. Noise management efforts have paid off well. It was much easier to process. I am not super happy with the colours. I think they are a little muted but Saturation in PS seems to make it a bit noisy and vulgar so maybe this is all I can get without more data. I used the dodge and burn tools quite a bit on the dark nebula to give more texture. It seems to have worked while remaining subtle enough not be obvious that its been done.

[Bloodbean]

Montewilson,

Wow very nice colours! Any chance of a higher res version?

Troy

[montewilson]

Sure - I don't have anywhere I can post it. Any suggestions??

I can do a 5 - 10mb jpg.

I even have the original 60Mb TIF for the hardcore.

Regards

Monte

[Jen]

:thumbsup: beautiful pic :thumbsup:
:camera:

[Tilt]

Very impressive. How many hours of data were required in total to make up this image?

Michael

[Liz]

That's beautiful Monte, and now as my desktop :)

[montewilson]

I think it was 4 x10 minutes for each channel with the FSQ-106 and an STL-11000m.

[Matty P]

Excellent image Monte! Fantastic detail within the nebula and lovely colour.

I'd love to see a Hi-Res version as well. :D

To do so, you can make an account on Photobucket and upload it there.

http://photobucket.com/

Very well done. :thumbsup:

[acropolite]

Beautiful image Monte, I like the subtle colours, sometimes less is more. The only thing I'd like is a wider FOV.

[AlexN]

I'll pm you my email address mate, I'll host a 10mb one for ya if you like.... :) Im keen as hell to see it ! :D

[montewilson]

Please make all dontations payable to the "Buy Monte a schmidt camera fund" and he will give you a wider field......:rofl:

[bluescope]

Very nice image Monte, you have done a good processing job and have indeed brought out the dark areas very well.

:thumbsup:

[AlexN]

High Res Image Here! (http://users.on.net/%7Ekooliez/monte/rho.jpg)

Alex.

[leon]

Well said Monte, ;) let the buggers pay for quality work, :lol: very impressive image I might add, well done.

Leon :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Fantastic image Monty, the colours are awesome.

Cheers

[spearo]

Amazing resolution on the high res image
beautiful colors and composition
great stuff!
frank

[Martin Pugh]

Hi Monte

very nicely done mate..the colours look very good

what filters are they?

cheers
Martin

[Lester]

Fantastic image.

[montewilson]

Thanks Guys and Gals for all the lovely comments. I try to limit the number of images I post to the best ones or the ones that are testing my patience the most.

Martin - the filters are Astrodon R G B.

M4 is burnt out because I was a bit careless when I did the curves. I guess I was concentrating on the dust or something else and didn't notice until it was too late. I might get motivated to fix it some time.

[Tamtarn]

That's an excellent image Monte. Colours and composition look great.
High res version is very impressive.

[multiweb]

As per usual awesome stuff mate! :thumbsup: See you in Ilford.

[RB]

Excellent stuff Monte, gorgeous colours and smooth detail.

:thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Another lovely Monte effort! Beautiful colours

....can I have that FSQ..? :shrug: Com'on! I'll hit you with my Cen A yard stick.....:evil:

Mike

[iceman]

Stunning result! You do this target very well!

[Garyh]

Nearly missed this one, Excellent image!
Love it! :thumbsup:

[meliux]

beautiful, just beautiful. :thumbsup:

scaled to 1280px wide, cropped ~26px from the top and bottom to achieve 800px height, now its my desktop wallpaper :)

[montewilson]

Hi Dan - and NB to all! As Dan has done crop the image so there is no stretching when it is installed as wallpaper. If not it looses quite a bit of its appeal as the stars get distorted and look unfocused.

Also I am delighted that some of you are using it on your desktops. It makes me feel very proud.

Thanx

[sejanus]

that is staggeringly good. it's on my wallpaper on my laptop :)