[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

We can't remember seeing so much nebulosity and detail above the horsehead before in any other image. Such nice composition also. Beautifully done Jase.
An excellent way to finish off 2007

A big thank you for the processing hints throughout the year it's helped us a great deal.

Your many posts on images stressing "don't clip the black point" has resounded loud and clear

All the best for a great 2008

Barb and David

Thanks Barb and David. Pleased you like it and glad you got some information from my posts over the year. Sometimes, its difficult to provide constructive advice/criticism without offending the person to some extent. - re: clipping the black point.

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Excellent Jase, nice nebulae extension, and youve captured some highlight detail on the horse head not oft seen. And a merry Xmas and eventfull new year to you too Jase.
Cheers (hic ;-)

Cheers Fred. The 2.7 hours of Ha data does wonders, but its in the processing where I found this hidden data. Have a good one dude!

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

that looks like lightning!

fantastic horsey!

Thanks David.

Originally Posted by gbeal

Yet another stunning image Jase, almost too bright, LOL.
Gary

Cheers Gary. Need to see some more imaging from you now you're plate solving.

Originally Posted by spearo

Just amazing!
you keep setting standards for me to work towards (not that i`ll ever get there but i do like to aim high!)
cheers
frank

Thanks Frank. Keep at it. The only way to learn is by pushing yourself to try different things. There are failures along the way, but you still learn from them.

Originally Posted by Garyh

A beaut image to end the year! LoL..like Barb and Dave say...
A little noise in the large version but look at that horsehead! heaps of detail.
Look forwards to more masterpieces in 2008!
Have a great holiday season!
cheers Gary

Cheers Gary. Yes, noise is a problem. I used old calibration frames which didn't help the situation. Thanks for checking it out.

Originally Posted by Alchemy

its all good jase, and 2 for the price of one

love the detail in the horse itself it looks like its had a bit of special attention there, glad you have the higer res version on your website brings it to life so much. Also love the detail in ngc 2023 more detail than ive seen elsewhere, little tendrils of dark snaking down into it drew my attention as i wandered through the image.

Corona... gob smackingly good.

i'd pm you for the processing details but ive got to absorb and practice other processing details youve been kind enough to pass on first.

Thanks Alchemy. Pleased you liked both images. Coronae a fav of mine. Blue reflection nebs are always good to image.

Originally Posted by avandonk

I wont repeat what others have said about this image, but I do agree with them. Thanks for all your helpful constructive advice over the year Jase. I am sure others would all agree with me on that point.

I don't know whether you were aware of these filters by Hutech here

http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/...lter/index.htm

They claim that these filters suppress surface reflections from bright stars to 4% to that of conventional dichroic filters. They use their own filters as a comparison. I don't know how it would compare to the filters you are using now. What filters are you using?

Anyway a very nice image showing very faint detail I have not seen before.

Remember in all of science it is the signal to noise ratio that really matters. The rest is window dressing.

Bert

Thanks Bert. Something that I didn't mention in the original post was the stretching method I used. What I did was create six layers of different DDP intensities - stretched hard through to soft. It was in the hard stretched data I found the intricate details, but a considerable amount of noise. So I layered and clipped each of them in Photoshop to bring out the different features while "trying to" suppress noise. I guess this is similar to the HDR process - just a manual time consuming way of doing it. Thanks for the filter link too. Will check them out. At a quick glance they do appear to have a lower transmission window to what I'm currently using, which are the Custom Scientific LRGB set. Will need to do some research. I do like the CS set as there is a clean channel cut for the red filter (no cross over). This makes it great for RRGB images or in general using red as the luminance. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Phil

Hi Jase agian a stunning imaging very sharp mate. Well done.
Phil

Thanks Phil. Pleased you liked it. Have a good one mate.

Originally Posted by Ingo

It's down

Dodgy web hosting provider. Will be changing to someone more reliable in the future.

=======

Thank you all for your kind words. Have a great time over the festive season.