[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by Inmykombie

Very nice indeed.
loads of detail.
Are they the natural colours of the veil or did you use filters ?

Thanks Geoff - mostly stretches (curves) and levels in PS, with some saturation tweaks. I overlayed with some Shadows/Highlights too, but no changes to colours (other than the above hocus pocus). The camera is unmodded, so blue/greens (O III?) tend to come through fairly strongly.

In general these deep sky shots are a real pleasure to process colour-wise. When I shoot from suburbia with an IDAS filter, you constantly have to tame the blues during processing and I usually need to selectively brighten the neb and similarly selectively pull back noise in the background - not required here though.

Originally Posted by Lester

Very nice images Rob. The colours are good.

I was viewing an image of the western section on another forum this morning where it was pointed out how the star numbers vary from one side to the other of the nebula. Your image shows this also.

Interesting Lester. I'd love to be able to get a wide field of this sometime. It just blows the mind (no pun intended) how this thing has come apart.

Originally Posted by Matty P

I agree, they are excellent Rob. Great colours and detail. Nice processing as well.

The east Veil region has come out very nicely as you have said. I guess it is a compromise with the western region though, with the bright star to contend with. However it is still a fine image.

I'd love to have a go at this region myself one day.

Great work.

Thanks Matty

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! That is quite something indeed! Very sharp neb. Love the colors too. Top work.

Thanks for looking Marc!