M20

[peter_4059]

Managed to get a couple of hours of M20 last night with equipment behaving itself. Processing needs some more work as I'm unhappy with the colour balance.

I've had to heavily compress to fit within the posting limit but there's a full res version here: http://astrob.in/11331/

Comments & advice welcome, thanks for looking!

[jjjnettie]

Another nice one Bester.
As you said, a little more work with the colour balance will finish it off. :)

[ozstronomer]

Pete great image, stars are pinpoint with nice colour.

Would be interested to see what a little selective colour boost would do to the Nebula.

Looks like the rig is performing well :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

Nice image Peter, but it looks a bit dark on my screen?

[h0ughy]

was the screen on:lol:

looks fine here - and i agree with JJJ:help:

[multiweb]

Wow! That's really well done Peter. Very nice! :thumbsup: I agree with Allan. Just a tad dark for my screen too.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

H iPeter,

That's a great image, you have a lot of nebulosity to play there.

Cheers,

Justin.

[peter_4059]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've done a touch more stretching and boosted the saturation a bit - think this one looks better.

[[1ponders]]

Nice one Pete. Midway between the two for me. :D ;)

[peter_4059]

Done...

[[1ponders]]

Thanks Pete, much better :)

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Peter.

Sharp and detailed.

I love the composition and framing with the stars.

Ross.

[peter_4059]

Thanks Ross. I've been playing with Pixinsight processing tonight for the first time for quite a while. Here's the data reprocessed from scratch (too big to upload here).

http://astrob.in/11331/?r=1762

[Ross G]

I think that's one of the nicest looking Trifid photos I have seen.

Well done.

Ross.

[Paul Haese]

The last site posted one is quite nice. If you had another 5 or 6 hours worth of data, the dark dust to the right of the nebula would come out. Which camera is this with?

[DJT]

Great shot Ross. repro is excellent.:)

[peter_4059]

Thanks Ross. I definately need to spend more time learning to use Pixinsight. The image calibration script is quite good now.



Thanks Paul. This was taken with the QHY8.



Cheers David

[alpal]

I like that image - you've managed to pick up
all the faint areas around the nebula.

[RickS]

The PI version is very good, Peter!

Cheers,
Rick.

[troypiggo]

Oh yeah. The dust is coming out nicely, hey. Not a bad effort for first PI full processing mate. You only needed to give it a chance. :)

[TrevorW]

Nice one Peter

[peter_4059]

Thanks - I've always found it tough to capture the reflection neb.



Thanks Rick. That calibration script really has improved PI's useability.



Thanks Troy. Will definately be spending more time on it.



Cheers Trevor.

[naskies]

Nice work. Is it just me, or does the latest (brighter) version almost look like the blue nebulosity is "missing"? I guess I'm used to seeing the blue and red parts with equal brightness.