ic4628 Narrowband

[gregbradley]

I don't do narrowband that often but the CDK17 with the reducer is really a hot little narrowband machine. The reducer really transforms it in that way.

So here is IC4628 commonly referred to as the Prawn.
HaS11O111 all 15 minute subs at -35C 60 60 105 and LRGB 105 25 25 25
for the stars. Proline 16803, Astrodon 5nm Ha S11 and O111 filters.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/137164599 regular

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/137164599/original large

Greg.

[multiweb]

That's a great shot Greg. Love the color blend. Just right. :thumbsup:

[atalas]

Greg,I'm not really a narrow band fan but that looks fantastic! love the color and detail.

[gregbradley]

Its the tricky bit in NB. I aim for a general spread of the spectrum.

I like the subtle colours Ken Crawford gets though. He gets some light mustardy colours that look good with the soft blues.



Thanks Louie. I was surprised at how detailed the Ha was. That was when I decided to do a NB version of it.

Greg.

[CoolhandJo]

Great colour balance! :)

[strongmanmike]

Niiiice Greg excellent colour blend! :-)

Mike

[Tandum]

Is that what it should look like :) I'd say that scope is a keeper :)

[sadia]

Very nice color blend there Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Interesting colour blend. Great colours showing through.

[desler]

Wow, that really is something Greg! Very nice indeed.

Darren

[Ric]

A great image Greg, the colour mix looks spot on.

[gregbradley]

Thanks for that. I was happy to be able to get the colours to balance out.



Cheers Mike. That is usually the hard part with these types of images.



I like its performance with the reducer. I think it makes the camera and scope match the local seeing better.



Thanks for that.



It is an interesting and detailed area.



Thanks Darren. I am glad you liked it.

Greg.

[LucasB]

Beautiful image! A real pleasure to look at. :thumbsup:
Lucas

[gregbradley]

Thanks Lucas. I don't do narrowband often but the Ha was so detailed and interesting I thought it was worth doing.

Greg.

[iceman]

That's nice Greg, one of your nicest images I've seen in a while.

Nice colours!

[jase]

Bold colours Greg, teetering on the side of electrifying. Quite like them. Excellent details as one would expect. Thanks for sharing. Well done.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Mike. I was happy with it.



Cheers Jase. Yes the colours are pretty bold and I thought about that for a while at the time. But I felt the image could handle it seeing as the detail was there and it is narrowband.

Greg.

[Ross G]

Amazing detail Greg.


Thanks.


Ross.

[gregbradley]

Thanks Ross. I was surprised at how well the Ha turned out. That led me to do the whole 7 filters.

Greg.

[glenc]

Another great shot Greg!

[gregbradley]

Thanks very much Glen.

Greg.

[Hagar]

WOW. Thats big and bright Greg. You have captured the detail beautifully and managed some nice star colour to boot.

Well done.

[richardo]

As mentioned in this post, love your balanced colour blend Greg!
This object/ area really needs narrow band to show its finer structure better and lift it, something that shows very well in this image.

I found with a HaLrgb blend that I did a while back, I couldn't get a good depth feel and look.
NB is just what the doc ordered.

Great!

Cheers
Rich

[gregbradley]

Thanks Dougie. I haven't done a lot of narrowband and I am happy it turned out the way it did.



Thanks Rich. I feel I have settled on a formula for this sort of image.
Yes I think narrowband suits it better as you get the nice blues of the O111 to balance it out.

Greg.