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Originally Posted by astroron
I am sad to say this magnificent nebula is being processed into oblivion.
The name now has become obsolete,the object is unrecognizable from it's title
Just my observation.
No offense meant to the imager.
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Thanks Ron. I knew it was strong processing but its more than I realised. I am also using a new monitor and I am still gaining confidence it is displaying colours correctly. Its calibrated but it shows colours as way more saturated than I see on my laptop.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Hi, Greg. The super-wide-field swan in NB is magnificent. I really like it for its depth and colour.
Of extra interest is the faint, roughly equal-sized structure toward top left of the Swan. A smoking guitar perhaps. Or the guitar could be the body and neck of an emu on skis.
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Hehe thanks Mike.
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Greg, I like the concept but I'm sorry to say it's a bit heavy handed in the processing imo.
The dark gaseous clouds near the neck can be visibly seperated from the background but here they have disappeared/blended into oblivion.
The image also looks noisy around the feint extremities of the nebulosity.
And yet the detail in the highlights is awesome and the colour palette is rich!
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Yes I'll retweak this one. I started processing it a while ago and the initial set didn't seem too impressive so I dropped it. I picked it up again lately and it came up better than I thought which as you say I liked the great detail the AP scope has gotten in the core area. So its worth some repro'ing.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
I'm confused Greg. What palette did you use? Whatever it is I'm afraid I'm not a fan. I agree with others too that the Cyan is probably an an artefact - it's way too abrupt and out of character with the rest of the colour tones in the image. BTW, what does it look like without layering in RGB stars?
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I'll check it out. The cyan appeared in one layer I threw in for effect. It will be easy enough to remove. I'll rework it and make some other variations.
The data is quite good and the Ha is quite deep.
Greg.