[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by DJT

What a great image

Thanks for that. I love these widefields myself.

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Nice project Greg!

Some rich colours, I find it difficult to balance all these colours in wide field shots.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin. Mosaics can be a challenge getting things to blend in.

Originally Posted by RickS

A very ambitious project, Greg. Looking forward to more

Thanks Rick. I have 5 panels and luminance for a 6th but the Milky Way needs to be up a bit more to continue.

Originally Posted by atalas

Nice work Greg...looks great.

Thanks Louie.

Originally Posted by naskies

Hi Greg, looking pretty good so far. Did something go a little awry with the processing for one of the panels? The area directly above Trifid/Lagoon seems strange...

Yes it looks like some colour got pushed too hard.

Originally Posted by RobF

This has potential to be amazing Greg. I can't help but wonder too if processing has been a bit harsh (or perhaps its just major compression artefacts). The Pentax 67 wide open must be one serious weapon.

Its a great lens and its quite cheap. Under $300. Processing may be a tad harsh and I'll look at taming that.

Originally Posted by kepp

Thats looking good hope to see more

Cheers, I am looking forward to shooting more panels.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Looking at the original image the processing looks too harsh to me. The colours are great but the detail looks monochromatic to me. A great project for sure but one you will no doubt revisit the processing on.

Different setups seem to show it differently. Some 5D mark 11 images have the stars a nice whitish colour. Not sure what you mean about monochromatic as much of the image is the dust lanes area and there isn't a lot of colour there.

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Very nice Greg and a good project to pursue.

Cheers
Martin

Thanks Martin. Widefield lens imaging is a nice distraction from deep sky.

Originally Posted by rcheshire

Beautiful Greg.

Thanks for that.

Originally Posted by Ross G

An amazing wide field photo Greg.

Beautiful colours. Does the Pentax lens show any CA at full aperture?

As you add to this, you will have a very detailed sky map.

Thanks.

Ross.

Thanks Ross. Yes the lens shows a small amount of chromatic aberration but not very much and easily corrected. Its quite a gem of a lens for this sort of work.

Marc uses a nice 200mm Pentax and that works great for him. They are the bargain of the lens astrophotography plus they have a lot of backfocus so you can put a digital focuser in front of one.

Greg.