Standard Messier 8

[Peter Ward]

Lord knows.... the world doesn't really need another vanilla M8!

... but as I already had the H-alpha data, I figured it needed a little colour.
Common subject matter, but brushed up OK?

The link is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery157.html)

[strongmanmike]

Marc Aragnou will love you for it

Nice result

Mike

[allan gould]

Nice one Peter - really great detail and composition.

[Craig_L]

Wow! With that pin sharp starfield to frame it, a wonderful shot.

[Peter Ward]

It's OK, but needs another four (mosaic) fames to really get going.



Ta, as above.



Thanks Mike....its OK, but not one I'd put into CWAS....which so far has zero-candidates from yours truly.

[Peter Ward]

Decided not to force the image processing.... and simply hit it with a bigger hammer this afternoon. :)

Waddyareckon....too much?

[multiweb]

:love: What's this DSO? I'm not familiar with it. :P
Top shot as per usual Peter. Great details.

[RobF]

Thanks for showing - interesting to see how a pro handles the colours which I find challenging in this bright object.

[LightningNZ]

I love that you've managed to include the cluster at bottom left. Beautiful, subtle processing. That's a killer image.

Thanks for posting,
Cam

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Peter.

So much detail and so, so sharp!

Ross.

[Paul Haese]

Nice vibrancy, great detail but the magenta is maybe just a little too white clipped? Well it looks that way. Only in some areas though. I saw the first version and thought that was quite nice.

[LightningNZ]

Preferred the original version. It's lost some of it's subtlety. Still a great shot.

Cheers,
Cam

[Peter Ward]

Been away for a bit....... uploaded a more high key version that preserved the highlights a tad better... Thanks for the feedback guys :thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Yeah like that one Peter.

[gregbradley]

Very nice result. But hey Peter - 60 30 30 30? 2 1/2 hours - where's your 15-20 hour masterpiece??

Greg.

[naskies]

Very nice - looks 3D! I assume I'm looking at the latest version...? (Getting confused with the thread trail.)