Lagoon Central

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F4.5, ATK-16HR, Astrodon filters.

Had to give this a go overhead in narrowband hubble style-image1. Tried to put in the RGB stars using blend mode lighten which seemed to work but blue O3 turned purple so had to correct in image2. Jase suggestion of col noise to reduce pink stars worked well. Close in central area-image3.

Image long ways looks more attractive and 3D.

S2-11x6m
Ha-16x2m
O3-11x4m
RGB-10x2m.

Thanks for looking.

[Mighty_oz]

Goto love that colour scheme :)
Still amazes me what u can do with that eq6 !
Great amount of detail there.

Marcus.

[Stevec35]

That's a very good narrow band lagoon John. Well done.

Cheers

Steve

[Octane]

John,

Absolutely gobsmackingly beautiful works of art.

I /love/ them!

H

[richardo]

That is truly stunning John...
I do love what NB filters can do to our most imaged objects.

Love the detail... just opens up a whole new depth.

Keep em coming.

Rich

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Speechless...

[Alchemy]

The narrowband method certainly does produce what appears to be more detail, opening it up with the color .
It's taken a while to grow on me, but I'm starting to like these shots, not all are done well, but you have produced a good result here.

[bokglob]

Wowee!! psychedelic central :eyepop: Amazing AMAZING detail there John. I didn't think I'd be saying this, but I've seen the Lagoon in a new light! Very nice work. Thanks for the view :thumbsup:

[RB]

Lovely work John.
It does have a 3D feel.

[Paul Haese]

That is very nice John. Lovely processing and the narrowband palette is well balanced. Lovely work.

[DavidTrap]

Makes me want to add a couple of narrowband filters to my system! Very impressive.

DT

[RobF]

Stunning work for sure. The middle one makes me feel like I'm looking into the whole scene from above with lighting off to one side. Wonderful :thumbsup:

[SkyViking]

That's a very impressive view, those NB colours work wonders here it seems. You've really captured a lot of detail, very cool :D

[rogerg]

They're spectacular! Like paintings. They'd look great on canvas.

[DavidU]

Spectacular John, your best work to date I think.:thumbsup:

[atalas]

Excellent work John! incredible detail and wonderful color.

[strongmanmike]

Yep, a great piece of work that John, the colours work very well and the sharpening isn't too obvious - top result :thumbsup:

Once he gets his tongue back, Marc may propose to you though...so look out.

Mike

[scopemankit]

fantastic!

[Osirisra]

Very nice eye popping image!

[OzRob]

I am surprised you can get so much with such sort exposures, nice work!

[John Hothersall]

Thanks everyone, I tried to equalise ADU value for each narrowband at 5,000 to 6,000 value but O3 was often more. I really could do with an ST10 for wider field with these nebulas. F4.5 does save so much time though.

John.

[LucasB]

I love the colours and the detail. Magnificent. :thumbsup:
Lucas

[spearo]

Well done John
great colors!
frank

[FranckiM06]

It is really great shot. So beautiful this image.:thumbsup:
I forgot to ask you, why the halo is red around the stars in your first image and blue in the second image ? But I think it is the same image !
Best regards.;)
Franck

[Ross G]

Amazing detail John.

Has a deep 3D look.


Thanks.

Ross.