Astrofest M17

[peter_4059]

Slowly crunching through the data from Astrofest. This one is M17 taken on the 14th - the only image I captured that night. This one is 18x5mins Lum, 9x5mins each RGB & 5x10mins Ha, all 1x1 with the QSI683ws-8/10" Newt.

Still not sure about the colour balance but using this as my point of reference:
http://messier.seds.org/Pics/Hi-res/m17_aat085a_72.jpg


Full res version here:
http://astrob.in/18682/

[strongmanmike]

Needs just a tad more magenta ;)

Nice work Pete :thumbsup:

Mike

[h0ughy]

wow look at the image scale. Peter apart from Mikes suggestion, what about using the HDR function in PI to bring out some details? I reckon its there in that image - easily.

Fantastic result mate

[jjjnettie]

Lovely work there Peter. I love the restraint you've shown, by not over stretching the data and burning out any of the brighter detail.

[DavidTrap]

Cracker!

DT

[alpal]

That's such a great shot.
I reckon you could even squeeze a little more of other colours & sharpness out of it with some careful re-processing as your data is so good.

[allan gould]

Another gem Peter. I like the scale and processing.

[alan meehan]

Great image Pete lots of good detail and colour looks spot on ,a lovely image well done
AL

[ozstronomer]

Really nice image Peter, well done with the processing

[RickS]

Very nice image, Peter!

[peter_4059]

Thanks for the feedback. Hoping to get some time over the weekend for some tinkering with this one.

[CoolhandJo]

Love it.

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Peter.

Nice detail and colour.

Ross.