[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

A snifter of port and cheese my friend, too shot

and a cigar

Originally Posted by Placidus

Utterly superb result Marc.


The colours are lovely. Your 30 hours at the helm have produced a very smooth and definite result.


(To the unbelievers: We just don't understand the popular terror of seeing green in an SHO image. If the celestial reality contains areas of relatively fresh gas with not too much hard ultra-violet, then compared with the rest of the image, those particular areas with have predominantly H-alpha emission without too much OIII or SII emission, and it should, must, be green. If it isn't, there's a mistake, you're not being true to what's up there. Marc's got it exactly right: parts of this image are nowhere near as violent as say bits of the Magellanic clouds for example).



One to print really big and put on the wall. Bravo!



Best,
MnT

Thanks a lot mate. Good write-up. Go greens!

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

A very fine piece of work Marc that moves and swirls between the different elements in a classic fashion. The colour pallet works extremely well

Thanks Rodney. Took a few iterations. I'm really rusted with color processing three channels.

Originally Posted by Atmos

You JUST caught the PN along the lower left edge
Nicely done overall Marc

Thanks Colin. Yeah at first I though it was a water droplet or something that wasn't flat fielded correctly then realised I should keep it so I managed to salvage it after the combine. Barely. Maybe I'll go look at it with the CN-212 when the mount is up to scratch.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

A beautiful and, dare I say, restrained image Marc! Always appreciate images without over-the-top colours!

Thanks Marc. I don't deconv/sharpen/denoise my FSQ shots anymore and haven't for a long while. Instead I try to keep the focus spot on during the data collection, try to guide as best as I can sub pixel and dither a lot. It's a realively light weight fast scope stiff and compact enough to do that. I also found that if I try to sharpen anything I lose all the details and the smallest stars. So I gave up on this and don't do it anymore. I don't use star masks or star removals either. There are way too many stars in these shots and the tiny ones are just above the noise level. I can't possibly manage the star profiles in processing that many stars so I only play with colors. Nothing else.