The Seagull Nebula REPRO

[gregbradley]

There are various interesting nebula formations in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These are a few of them.

AP140 F7.5, Proline 16803, PMX 7 hours 20 minutes Ha O111 LRGB.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/159787366/large


Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Wow, look at that field very cool Greg.

I think you may have blown the neb highlights a little but great colour and contrast, love the prominent blue stars too.

Is that the final image with the AP140 ...god I hope there isn't anything wrong with the RHA and you are happy with it...has some quality shoes to fill huh? No turning back now.......

Mike

[IanP]

This is awesome shot Greg, but I’d attenuate stars a little bit.
A couple of months ago I found a tool for Photoshop called StarRemoving, and with opacity set to roughly 60% your shot looks absolutely amazing !!! my 3c …

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Love these crazy little LMC nebs, that's a very funky picture

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Nice wide-field view there Greg. Plenty of great detail.

Steve

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow, look at that field very cool Greg.

I think you may have blown the neb highlights a little but great colour and contrast, love the prominent blue stars too.

Is that the final image with the AP140 ...god I hope there isn't anything wrong with the RHA and you are happy with it...has some quality shoes to fill huh? No turning back now.......

Mike

Thanks Mike. I did do shadows/highlights on those bright areas so perhaps a tad more is able to pulled back but they are in fact a bright area. I have one other image from the AP140 and yes I hope the RHA is better as you say its got some shoes to fill.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Ian P

This is awesome shot Greg, but I’d attenuate stars a little bit.
A couple of months ago I found a tool for Photoshop called StarRemoving, and with opacity set to roughly 60% your shot looks absolutely amazing !!! my 3c …

Sounds interesting. Do you have a link for it?

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Andy01

Love these crazy little LMC nebs, that's a very funky picture

Thanks Andy.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nice wide-field view there Greg. Plenty of great detail.

Steve

Cheers Steve.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

I updated the image, attenuated the stars a little and reduced the highlights of the O111 areas a bit more.

Same link.

Greg.

[RickS (Rick)]

You've captured the Blue Star Cloud very nicely there. Nebulae look great too.

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by RickS

You've captured the Blue Star Cloud very nicely there. Nebulae look great too.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick. I look forward to your image with this magnificent scope. I always found it was one of those scopes (like an FSQ) that good images were easy to obtain from it. It does everything so well.

Greg.

[IanP]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Ian P

This is awesome shot Greg, but I’d attenuate stars a little bit.
A couple of months ago I found a tool for Photoshop called StarRemoving, and with opacity set to roughly 60% your shot looks absolutely amazing !!! my 3c …

Sounds interesting. Do you have a link for it?

Greg.

Don't remember where did I get it from, so I attached is the tool. Rename it to StarRemoving.rar and add it to Photoshop. You will see it after you open Windows-Actions. It will be in the same tree as StarTools (if you have them)

[IanP]

And here Greg is your picture with the tool applied with 59% opacity .. hope you will like it ..
http://www.4shared.com/download/ClOc....jpg?lgfp=3000

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by IanP

Don't remember where did I get it from, so I attached is the tool. Rename it to StarRemoving.rar and add it to Photoshop. You will see it after you open Windows-Actions. It will be in the same tree as StarTools (if you have them)

Thanks Ian. I downloaded it, renamed it to StarRemoving.rar. I copied and pasted it into the actions folder in Photoshop. It does not show when I open Photoshop. Normally an action is an .atn file and you load them using Load Actions which is on a drop down menu when you click on the triangle at the right top of the actions window.

How did you add it to Photoshop?

Greg.

[IanP]

The .rar file is an archive, you need to unzip it. The .atn file is inside ..

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Pin sharp and excellent star colour Greg. The bright bits are still a bit blown though, a tad distracting

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by IanP

Don't remember where did I get it from, so I attached is the tool. Rename it to StarRemoving.rar and add it to Photoshop. You will see it after you open Windows-Actions. It will be in the same tree as StarTools (if you have them)

Originally Posted by IanP

The .rar file is an archive, you need to unzip it. The .atn file is inside ..

Ahaha! Thanks Ian.

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Pin sharp and excellent star colour Greg. The bright bits are still a bit blown though, a tad distracting

Thanks Fred.

Yeah it must happened early on in the layers stage. I will go back to that point and correct it.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

I did a similar orientated image and looking image a few years ago. Then only last year I did another orientation and on both occasions I felt the composition looked odd. That said, I like your star colour, detail levels and look in general.

I think also the seagull nebula is the one at the bottom of the frame. I don't think the one in the centre of your frame has an official name. It might be the whacky racer though.

Nice to see you enthused and imaging again Greg.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Nice work Greg!

Stars are spot on and good colour through the image.

Cheers,

Justin.