[David Fitz-Henr]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Beautiful work David. I like the nice bluish stars and a few nice yellow ones. Lots of detail. A few comments. The Horsehead itself to my view is a bit oversharpened and so a tad unnatural. The yellow stars to the top left area have a shade of green in the yellow and so colour is off. A few have red rings around them from the Ha blending. Perhaps selecting those stars and using selective colour and adjust the yellows/reds would help. I am used to seeing the flame neb a more yellowish colour so perhaps a slight colour bias there as well.

All minor points on a superb image.

Greg.

Thanks for the comments and feedback Greg!
Just taking these points in increasing order of agreement :

• I also noticed that the stars in the top left had a slight greenish shade, but decided that this may be a real effect as the nebula in this region has a greenish hue in this and other horsehead images, so I left it alone rather than try to process it out. There does not seem to be a gradient and stars in other regions look properly balanced.
• I'm not sure about the horsehead being oversharpened, but that may be my taste as the image shows a fair bit of detail and I used a bit of Soft Light to bring it out. I'd be interested in the general opinion here though ...
• I'll have a look at some other images of the Flame nebula regarding the colour, but I do recall looking across the web and there does seem to be a lot of variation here.
• Yes I noticed that some of the yellow stars had red rings after posting the image - I'll fix them in the next day or so.

Originally Posted by RickS

A really great horsie, David. That scope is working wonderfully well.

Thanks Rick; yes I must say I am quite pleased with the performance of the scope. It will be my processing that lets me down if anything