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Old 23-08-2023, 07:44 PM
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The Omega rises out of a sea of hydrogen

Incredibly easy to shoot, incredibly hard to process.

Brightness distribution across the three standard narrowband channels makes getting some clear transitions in colour surprisingly challenging with this target.

Made 8-10 different colour blends with this one before I landed on something I quite liked; and about the same number of iterations on the luminance blend trying to get the bright parts to blend in with the fainter background dark bits less aggressively.

Very tough not to end up with a completely 'neon' looking combined image. Anyway, hope you like the balance I've tried to strike.

The 2600 coupled with a 3nm filter rips some amazingly low noise and high detail Ha data, very impressed.

my own flavour of foraxx sho with rgb stars.

Higher res version here: https://www.astrobin.com/n09v87/
Esprit 120 / Eq6r / 2600mm / Antlia 3nm/RGB

~7hrs each Ha and Oiii, ~6hrs Sii and ~30m each RGB for ~21hrs.
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Old 23-08-2023, 07:57 PM
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Title revision: The Omega in fact, appears to be diving into a sea of hydrogen
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Old 23-08-2023, 08:08 PM
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love the colour in this.....stunning
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Old 24-08-2023, 08:39 AM
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Adam,
M17 Omega or Swan Nebula , doesn’t matter , what is relevant is your unbelievable image , Wow !!
Gives me hope when I finally set up and dial in my new 2600MM and Antlia 3nm filters.
Although you did pour some serious hours into this image, but has paid off big time.
Well done indeed !!
It’s only my opinion but I’m not a fan of starless images

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Old 24-08-2023, 12:47 PM
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Very nice image mate. Super deep well done!!
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Old 24-08-2023, 06:34 PM
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All in all a very tidy and quite striking result Adam

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Old 25-08-2023, 07:56 AM
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Looks good!

Gently-controlled dynamic range and a visually pleasing colour palette. Could use a slight crop on the LHS?

Well done!
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Old 28-08-2023, 05:56 PM
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Thanks guys!

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