Took this last night right before the clouds came rolling in. A bit misty still in the sky and bright. exp on this shot was 10 x 5 minutes at ISO 400. Its not blue or cyan, personally, i think the tarantula is green/brownish and not red . no im serious check out brad moores ... ok i better goto bed now 4:57am... nites..
Got to bed Eric. You've collecting some pleasing data. My pick of the two is the revised version (image in the second post). Appears more vibrant, though both are great. Well done.
Excellent image Eric, The tarantula looks very nice and I like the colors! the other fainter nebulosity looks a bit on the reddish side but very, very nice
Eric,
very nice, great FOV/frame?focus
detail is quite good especially as you shoot at ISO 400 (i am waiting for a good mount to try that!)
I like the colors but like Peter, the stars seem a bit too blue, what happens if you set a white point 5x5 pixel on a bright star ( i have no doubt that there are more precise ways of doing this but I'm still a newbie)?
Eric,
you can disregard my totally idiotic advice from earlier....
here's something that seems to work on the blue stars without affecting the rest of the image: in PS, got to adjustments/saturation, select blue channel and drop it right down, see what you think.
Of course, it's quite possible that all these stars in that region are supposed to be blue...in which case I should probably wait til I start imaging again before trying to help others!
:]
I've pretty much forgotten all of the little I knew because of these months and months of rain....
cheers
frank
cheersss guys thanks. peter & frank, yes the stars are blue around that region. not the normal blue but a bright blue if you know what i mean . i have seen alot of examples of the big spider with those blue stars.
Anyway, after seeing big mike's tarantula (im his secret admirer but hushh ) i had to alter my image. Did alot of changes see if can tell the differences. Here it is once again (and this is the FINAL FINAL VERSION 4)
Excellent tarantula region Eric, nicely framed and certainly vibrant colours. You've captured the green colour too which is often lacking in Tarantula shots - it "is" real
Just remember though that excited hydrogen includes H-Beta emission as well as H-alpha and since H-Beta is blue light, hydrogen regions are not deep red, they are more of a magenta colour.
. no im serious check out brad moores 
... ok i better goto bed now 4:57am... nites..
if you know what i mean 
. i have seen alot of examples of the big spider with those blue stars. 
) i had to alter my image. Did alot of changes see if can tell the differences. Here it is once again (and this is the FINAL FINAL VERSION 4) 
