M17 - the Omega Neb

[pmrid]

This is my first image since I fractured a couple of discs inmy back. it's been 9 weeks since I did that, so a longish drought. And I had to limit myself tonight to get this much - it's just 6 x 5 minutes of Ha, OIII and SII with an artificial Luminance (SHO] added for good measure.

The major significance of the image is that when I busted my back I was sorting out a WO FLT110 I had bought and fitted with a new Moonlite with SX wheel, OAG and Astronomic NB filters but with one thing and another I hadn't managed to get it all together in time to actually image anything. So this is both a return to the observatory for me and the first light for the FLT110.

The camera is an ATIK 4000 (same chip as SXVRH16).
I am quite surprised by the sharpness of the images and by the extent of OIII that it seems to have taken in.

Any comments welcome.

Peter

[allan gould]

Excellent come back Peter with a great detailed image. Going to Astrofest or is that pushing it?

[RickS]

Good to see you imaging again, Peter! That's a pretty good first light.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Martin Pugh]

Welcome back Peter and you've rebounded with a very fine image. As you say the sharpness is really good, and a sure indication of great focus.

well done
Martin

[Ross G]

A very good photo Peter.

It is very sharp and has nice detail.

Good luck with the comeback.

Ross.

[ozstronomer]

Nice work Peter, good to see you up and around. Hope your back is holding up

Geoff

[RickC]

Very nice image Peter, look forward to more images from this setup

Richard

[multiweb]

Top shot Peter. Really sharp. Great field too. :thumbsup:

[RobF]

Plenty of detail and nice gentle NB palette. Top stuff, and glad to see you having fun again Peter.

[scopemankit]

very nice image!

[Tandum]

Great detail in there pete. Pull back the Ha to reduce the green and let the other colours come through. Might need more S2 but don;t they all :rolleyes:

[strongmanmike]

That's a pretty good image...for a lame imager :P

Maybe a bit green but still looks ok...what is it about green that seems to turn us off :question:....another colour convention perhaps ;)

Nice work

Mike

[pmrid]

Thanks everyone. Tandem and Mike both comment on the green (Ha). I find I hard to balance color in NB. It's probably because I am instinctively trying to process it to a palette that seems "natural". But of course, it is anything but.

The eye wants to be able to see the world bough RGB glasses I guess.
Peter

[strongmanmike]

Ha is dominant becasue...well, there's more of it, simple, so if you assign it to green you get a greeny image, problem is our eye doesn't seem to like a green image :sadeyes: so we can take heaps more SII(red) and OIII(blue) to help them catch up a bit oooooor manupulate the result in PS :D your choice :thumbsup:

Otherwise if more green images got released and our eye's got used to it then green it would become :thumbsup:

Mike