Reprocessed Lagoon,Trifid and Swan nebs.

[mill (Martin)]

Ok here are the reprocessed images of the Lagoon, Trifid and Swan nebula.
The Lagoon is a closer crop of the original picture.
Any comments welcome (Good or bad).

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

i think i like the triffid best

[AlexN]

Agreed the triffid stands out very nicely!

In the M8 shot, the histogram was clipped in Blue and Green, I had a bit of a fiddle (hoping you wont mind)

I adjusted levels for green and blue, a little adjustment to curves and color balance.

What do you think?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Love the trifid. You captured stacks of blue nebulosity around.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

So Martin, what were these taken with..or am I blind?

Three cool images

Mike

[mill (Martin)]

I dont mind at all Alex, that looks very red on my lcd screen.
Thank you Mark and Mike.
The images are taken with a Nikon D70 and a 8" skywatcher reflector (out of collimation ).

[AlexN]

It is a fair bit deeper on the reds/magentas than your original, Which in actual fact isn't what i was aiming to do, Just trying to add a bit more contrast to the darker areas of the nebulosity...

However, I'm definitely no expert on the matter...

[winensky]

Ah you have tamed the kitty. The triffid is terrif . The balance and saturation on all the shots are nice and vivid. Lovely work .