A spooky Tarantula

[Andy01 (Andy)]

NGC 2070 from Country Victoria, During Feb new moon.

20x5 min RGB with SBIG 8300c - pushed and stretched to bu... well lots anyway! Really just seeing how far one can push OSC RGB files in post production with PS and NIK filters.

I've stretched a BW luminance blend layer in PS to bring out the nebulosity, and colour blend mode layers on top, heavily filtered with tonal and colour contrast layers, noise reduction, sharpening and a separate star layer on top of the stack. (I suspect the 200K Jpeg will suffer in translation, but hopefully it still looks ok).

Was also trying a bit of star masking to hold the big stars from bloating during stretching. Still working on these techniques, hopefully they should come in handy when I eventually move on to a mono setup.

Pretty good night's seeing, might be worthwhile getting a bit more data for smoother results, but overall I'm happy with it.

Anyway, thanks for looking, feedback welcome.
Cheers

Andy

[MortonH]

Nice one!

[The_bluester (Paul)]

Great to see that you got something good from the night. I can't recall, did you hit two targets?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very nice shot. Lovely colors.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by MortonH

Nice one!

Thanks Morton

Originally Posted by multiweb

Very nice shot. Lovely colors.

Cheers Marc

Originally Posted by The_bluester

Great to see that you got something good from the night. I can't recall, did you hit two targets?

Yeah, had a crack at the Running Chicken, but it needs heaps more data yet.
Will try and get some more from home with the LP filter and combine/use it as a luminance layer.

[cosmophoton (Luiz)]

A very nice image, well done!
Luiz Duczmal

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Great colours! Beautiful!

[BruceG (Bruce)]

Amazing kind of 3 dimentional look to it.
Great colour too!
Bruce.