Astrofest M27

[peter_4059]

Finally got around to some processing tonight. Still a lot to learn about processing LRGB and narrowband data. This one was taken over a three nights and comprises 27x5mins Lum, 6x5mins RGB, 5x10mins Ha, 11x10mins OIII - by far my longest integration - almost 6.5hrs all up :eyepop:


I've had to resize to less than 30% and compress the JPEG to 30% to get under the 200 kb limit but here goes....

Comments/advice always welcome.

[alpal]

You're getting there.
How about mapping the narrow band to a Hubble palette & see what comes out?
It would be interesting to see as you can do a lot with that data.

[RobF]

Glad to hear you're still alive Peter. Bit purple, but heck, better than any NB I've managed. Fantastic detail in there it seems.

[RickS]

Yep, very nice detail in there, Peter. Colour is a little funky, but that happens (especially to me!)

[Ross G]

Nice photo Peter.

Great detail.

Good luck.

Ross.

[Greg Bock]

HI Pete,
great detail, and there's alot of useful data there too.
Colour needs more work, seems too blue, and the colours of the stars are lost.
Sorry I cant offer anything more constructive, I'm not an NB expert, but I'm sure there are hours and hours of fun and games in it yet for you to present it in many different ways!

[troypiggo]

Looks very deep, mate. As you said, the blending is the tricky part. Very promising, though. Drooling over the amount of data you got.



Bit hard to map to Hubble Palette when there isn't any SII data... :rolleyes:

[jjjnettie]

As Greg said, you have enough data there to do what ever you damn well want with it. :)
Beaut image btw.

[alpal]

Try: Red instead of S11 & Ha=G, O3=B.

[troypiggo]

That's not even close to Hubble Palette ;)

[alpal]

I know that - I said

"try red instead" etc

[troypiggo]

Would you use the Carboni Actions to combine them?

[alpal]

No I'd use this:

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Tutorials/ColorMapping.zip

Colour mapping from Ken Crawford.