[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by DJScotty

That's a great image ray.
The next thing I need to work on are stars.
The settings you used for your stars appear to produce good results.
Might have to emulate your efforts.
Again great image
Scott

thanks Scott. stars are a bit of a work in progress I am afraid - in this case, the big problem was that the RGB had no colour info for the NB halos - not normally a problem , but this data has been stretched enough to show them clearly and they ended up an odd lilac colour. Toned them down a bit, but they are still a little odd. And I still haven't figured out a really reliable way to overlay the star colour from RGB. Am currently using Lab mapping to transfer the colour through a star mask, but haven't quite nailed the blending yet. Hope I can work it out before the old brain gives up altogether

Originally Posted by plantnerd

A stunning thing and a lovely image whatever gas blob it is

thanks Luis -yes, I guess that it really doesn't matter what it is.

Originally Posted by RickS

Great image, Ray, and clearly an incredibly challenging object Have you seen Don Goldman's image?

Cheers,
Rick.

thanks Rick. yep, used Don's image as well as the Capella image and one from Adam Lundie as references when trying to work out the best processing approach.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Hell a lot of galaxies popping through the Ha channel there Ray, nice! Doesn't look that faint so it's well processed.

Thanks Colin. the galaxies surprised, but this image is getting down into the weeds, so I guess there should be the odd galactic photon getting through the filters.

Originally Posted by Spookyer

Very nice, great patience in collecting the data.

thanks Brett. yep, took a while, but what else is there to do when the moon is up.