M20 Triffid Nebula

[TheDecepticon]

Probably my best attempt so far with the modded 40d. Had a look around on the net for a colour comparison, not too many good ones that I could find. Tried not to clip the histogram and tried not to over stretch the data.
Thanks for looking.:)

[dpastern]

That looks a goodin' to me! Looks right colourwise as well. At least how I remember M20.

Dave

[multiweb]

This is excellent. You just need more data. Tracking and focus are spot on. Good job. :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Wonderful shot but could do with a little bit of noise reduction like Noise Ninja.

Greg.

[Tom Davis]

Nicely done! Colors are excellent.

Tom

[jjjnettie]

wowee, there's so much detail in there.

[iceman]

The colours are beautiful!

I agree with Greg regarding noise reduction, and probably reducing the dimensions before saving under 200kb would help reduce the artifacts too.

Nice work!

[TheDecepticon]

Thank you for your comments, that's very nice! On the size of the image, I forgot to reduce it, sorry!!:D
On the noise, I will try Noise Ninja, thank you Greg. I must admit though, I process on an older 21inch CRT(I think that's what you call it)monitor, and the noise never looks as bad or is non-existent as on an LCD screen.:shrug:
Cool, something new to learn about!:)

[leon]

I must admit though, I process on an older 21inch CRT(I think that's what you call it)monitor, and the noise never looks as bad or is non-existent as on an LCD screen.http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/../vbiis/images/smilies/shrugging.gif

Have to admit I too did have this problem, on the old CRT it looked just fine, then when that died, and went to Monitor Heaven, I bought a new LCD. the difference is just incredible. :eyepop:yep, noise and all that other stuff. :whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[TheDecepticon]

Howdy Greg, Mike, is this presented better? I found Noise Ninja really softened/blurred the image too much, so I played with the settings a bit. Thanks for your input.

Taken with an Eric Lo modded Canon 40d through a Bintel N200 200mm reflector on an EQ6 with EQMOD and EQDIR. Guided with a DSI 1 Colour through an Orion 80ST using PHD. Image is 10x6min and is constructed using MaxIm DL, Deepsky Stacker, Photoshop CS2, Noel Carboni's Action & Noise Ninja.

[jjjnettie]

It looks awesome!

[TheDecepticon]

:thanks:

[prokyon]

That is much more better now. For noise reduction I use the astronomy tool for PS. I get good results with it.

Your pic is very good, colors and details... :thumbsup:


cheers

werner