[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

This what he posted on my Lagoon Ha image:

I have Topaz Details 2. I usually do a very light pass of micro contrast enhancement, creative details Accent and Feature Enhancement. Depends on the pic. Try different settings until you're happy with one.
If you have enough image scale, deconv will usually bring it out anyway. Startools has some cool fractal algo to enhance shock fronts and you can always use the HighPass filter technique in PS with a 5.2px setting and apply as a layer with a 60% "softlight" overlay blend. Marc.

Greg.

Hmm interesting. CCDstack has decon and I can do some high pass filtering in PS.

Originally Posted by DJScotty

Another beautiful image Mr Haese.
The smoothness of the Lagoon is incrfedible...

Thanks Scott, with all that signal in the Lagoon it does not take much to get it really smooth. With all the Ha and OIII I took to get signal further away from both M8 and M20 the end result was a buttery smooth look to the actual Lagoon.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Wasn't too sure what to make of this first off, but after coming back to it a few times, the logic of your approach is becoming more obvious. It has nice detail and is very pretty with such controlled colours - good stuff.

Thanks Ray, that is high praise, especially since you are well known for your methodology. A few years back I made the decision to incorporate NB with RGB image as much as possible. You often see images in one or the other or with some mix, but not often do you see a true incorporation. Sometimes you see NB with RGB stars, but almost never do you see all blended together. It does not always work. My recent image of NGC6188 does not really work for me and I am sure others thought similarly. It looked ok but not a stand out image. So I think this type of processing really needs objects that lend themselves to the palette. Others might not agree and I can see why you said you were not to sure what to make of it at first. Thanks for adding your comments.

Originally Posted by jase

Great work Paul! For narrowband, it has a real easy to consume, natural feel to it. Initially I thought, where's the saturation, but its certainly grown on me. It stands out in its own way. Enjoyed the composition too, with its super tight framing. Well done.

Thanks Jase I really appreciate you taking the time comment. I tend to under saturate in my images and this can sometimes have the appearance overall as being under saturated. I sort of like subtle in terms of saturation.

Unfortunately the framing is about as good as it gets with this sensor and scope combination. I would like some more field of view but the use of the reducer would negate the use of a rotator. When I can afford another camera it will be quite a bit bigger.

Thanks once again for commenting.