[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

Great shot

Needs a dash of salt in the water

Mornay sauce??!!

I left myself wide open for that one!!! Cheers

Originally Posted by jase

Nice one Doug. I don't mind the deep reds that Ha presents. The difficulty in processing such images is that heavy colour saturation can actually washout details. It becomes a balancing act between good colour depth and contrasting details. This is a good bit of work considering you've also managed to keep the star colours intact. Well done.

Thanks jase - in some defense of my processing abilities, I do feel that I was hampered a bit by some artefacts in the original subs. I had to use a 72mm LPS2 filter on a step ring to fit the 77mm diameter of the 300mm f4L lens. That and the added 1.4x extender caused some major CA and asymmetry around the brighter stars. I've attached a stretched crop of the central area of the nebula to illustrate - this is from a single sub.
I felt there was something "off" about the stacked RGB from the start, but persevered as I've got nothing else to play with at the moment!!!!

Originally Posted by Alchemy

i said id come back and have a look at the finished product.... i see you have made sure the star colors are in this one. well done.

clive

Cheers Clive

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I agree with Jase, Doug. This is not a bad shot at all. That object as I recall is quite red and is probably not the most beautiful neb around but worthy of imaging.

A little bit of star shape correction would help as well. You know, the
darken mode and offset tool routine?

Greg.

Thanks Greg - yeah it's an ugly little critter and no mistake!!! I think for the re-do I'll lose the extender, drop back to 300mm and image the whole Cat'sPaw/Lobster area - probably make a much more pleasing shot.

Have a look at the attached crop - that's a fair bit of cosmetic surgery needed on the stars Greg!!!

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Looks good Doug. Using only your best subs made a difference.

We can understand your frustration in not getting more Ha data. The weather over here has been woeful

Thankyou B&D - I've found that the more critical approach is the only way to go now. I could never be happy with an image I know that had some dodgy stuff I knowingly stuck in it somewhere.
It's so hard being a perfectionist!!!!!: lol:

Thanks for all the comments - much appreciated.
Doug