[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Absolutely love it M&T! Not quite as saturated as my preference (brink of over saturation ) but the colour rendition is great. Very sharp for sure!

Thanks, Colin, that's very encouraging. We like trying to bring out the colours in galaxies and clusters, but narrowband usually comes out pretty alarmingly saturated all by itself. Never thought about making it even more so. Winter is kinder than summer with seeing.

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's a beauty, such tiny stars and great details.

Thanks muchly, Marc. Just using H-alpha for the stars, and dropping the bloated SII and OIII certainly helps. We're getting better at removing them in SII and OIII without leaving horrible artifacts.

Originally Posted by PRejto

M & T, that's a beautiful image! As previously noted dark and brooding which I assume was intentional. Was the word "ominous" used?

My curiosity about the darkness led me to open the image in (don't faint) Photoshop. I was really curious to see where you put the black point because I thought it must be clipped. Wrong (though one might slightly argue about the green channel). Anyway, out of curiosity more than anything I hit the "auto" in levels. Since I really know zero about narrowband imaging I can't say anything except that it seems to bring out some beautiful shading between brown and green especially towards the left side of the image. It made me wonder if you could still keep the "brooding" mood and get some of the transitional colours?

Anyway, you have a great setup in great hands!

Peter

Many thanks for a thoughtful response, Peter. We're still a bit nervous about making the background too green. Doesn't bother us (outside the window, the winter paddocks are very green, especially the neighbours who are better farmers), but there are traditionalists who find it disturbing.