[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by Joshua Bunn

Beautiful Colin, pleasing to the eye, and great resolution.

Thanks Joshua, using your adapters

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well...looks mighty fine on my phone Col great colour too and your stella combining looks the best Ive seen you do Looking forward to having a closer look at a bigger version on a proper screen

Mike

Thanks Mike, I’ve given PixelMath a lot of thought before combining this one and pretty happy with how it’s turned out. Gives me hope for future Ha OIII RGB combinations

Originally Posted by codemonkey

A lovely natural looking M16, Colin, well done!

I'm planning on trying to do a more natural palette with my M16 data too, but I've never been very successful with that. One thing I did notice was that using the Elliptical Galaxy reference in PCC really made the O3 pop on my RGB data.

I’m looking forward to seeing your eventual rendition Can be interesting to see how a different combination method turns out
I’ve never been really impressed with PCC myself but I’d interested in what you can do with your excellent data.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Agree with all of the above! Very nicely done Colin!

It's also very nice to see someone else doing some "natural" palette work and making a good job of it! Using Ha and OIII to augment the RGB colours is the way to go for an object like this.

My only minor critique (and I mean minor) is that your bright star profiles look a little "blocky" (harder edges) - as opposed to a more Gaussian shape (softer edges). Doesn't detract from the image though - I just notice these things.

Thanks Marc I also really like seeing some of these narrowband regions in closer to accurate colour.

I hadn’t noticed that so good pick up I’m pretty sure that’s from using the Ha and OIII to reduce the star size a little to help make the nebulosity pop a little more. Dimmer stars remain round but the brighter ones with their 6 diffraction spikes go blocker. Reasonably easy fix but as you say, it’s quite minor

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Very nice Colin

Thanks Nik