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Originally Posted by multiweb
Wow! That's really very nicely done, Andy.  That's on my todo list. I wish it wasn't so low though.
PS: ignore my rambling. I thought it was the California nebula  |
Thanks Marc, appreciate the comment - sadly I cannot fit the california nebula in my FOV and I'm not brave enough yet to attempt a mosaic!
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Andy, superbly done. You've pretty much gotten on top of whatever it was that was causing the mysterious "broad watercolour brush" effect, and you're showing good subtle detail for example in the "feathers" under the wings, and in that beautiful OIII bubble at bottom right.
You've taken enough SII to get a good clean image.
Your stars have worked out very nicely. I'm somewhat of the view that in a narrowband image, the star colours are irrelevant, and for artistic reasons it is perfectly legitimate to just desaturate the stars to white.
I statistically measured the contribution of OIII in your image. Possibly you could make the OIII a little stronger. There's plenty of it, but perhaps you've played it down.
Interesting to compare your shot with one by J Mattei. Both are very good.
Best,
Mike |
Wow thanks Mike - yes, I've been listening and learning from all the input here thus far on the AP journey. Good tip about the O3. It very feint though, even when binx2.
I hadn't seen J Mattels' image before - his is remarkably similar with a camera with the same chip and FOV as mine. The colour choices have been interpreted differently in the two images, and his has even less O3 data yet the blue is stronger - interesting!
Thanks again for your input, much appreciated.
Cheers
Andy