Thanks guys for the comments
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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
15 hours is short? 
In any case it's a beauty in the making! |
I guess with the amount of hours I do on most objects I would consider this short.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Looking good so far Paul! Depth is looking OK and perhaps a little deeper than Mike's, but I do see a bit of a red cast - mostly on the left of frame. Perhaps some gradient as well?
There is Ha over much of the frame and it has medium to large scale structure. My experience was that it was not easy to render because it's so intertwined with the OIII. The danger I found was letting the OIII swamp the Ha (blue/green is sooo pretty!  ). In the end it's personal taste, but I balanced mine to be as true as possible to the relative signal strengths between the two, blinking between the full colour, OIII and Ha masters. |
Thanks Marcus for the detailed thoughts. This is really a very interesting topic. I don't think it is a gradient and I am reasonably sure of that. When I imaged this field a few years back with
my wide field set up, I noted a huge concentration of Ha data in the immediate surrounding field of the this object but it was more concentrated in some parts of the field and diffuse in other parts. And; this correlates well with what we are seeing here. So I think this might be genuine. Like you say though, at the end of the day its personal taste as to the concentrations exhibited.