M20

peter_4059 (Peter) · #1 20-05-2012, 10:08 AM

Managed to get a couple of hours of M20 last night with equipment behaving itself. Processing needs some more work as I'm unhappy with the colour balance.

I've had to heavily compress to fit within the posting limit but there's a full res version here: http://astrob.in/11331/

Comments & advice welcome, thanks for looking!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #2 20-05-2012, 11:01 AM

Another nice one Bester.
As you said, a little more work with the colour balance will finish it off.

ozstronomer (Geoff) · #3 20-05-2012, 11:34 AM

Pete great image, stars are pinpoint with nice colour.

Would be interested to see what a little selective colour boost would do to the Nebula.

Looks like the rig is performing well

allan gould · #4 20-05-2012, 11:36 AM

Nice image Peter, but it looks a bit dark on my screen?

h0ughy (David) · #5 20-05-2012, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allan gould

Nice image Peter, but it looks a bit dark on my screen?

was the screen on

looks fine here - and i agree with JJJ

multiweb (Marc) · #6 20-05-2012, 01:16 PM

Wow! That's really well done Peter. Very nice!

I agree with Allan. Just a tad dark for my screen too.

tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook) · #7 20-05-2012, 01:56 PM

H iPeter,

That's a great image, you have a lot of nebulosity to play there.

Cheers,

Justin.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #8 20-05-2012, 02:31 PM

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've done a touch more stretching and boosted the saturation a bit - think this one looks better.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #9 20-05-2012, 02:36 PM

Nice one Pete. Midway between the two for me.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #10 20-05-2012, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Nice one Pete. Midway between the two for me.

Done...

[1ponders] (Paul) · #11 20-05-2012, 03:46 PM

Thanks Pete, much better

Ross G · #12 20-05-2012, 09:03 PM

A beautiful photo Peter.

Sharp and detailed.

I love the composition and framing with the stars.

Ross.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #13 20-05-2012, 09:04 PM

Thanks Ross. I've been playing with Pixinsight processing tonight for the first time for quite a while. Here's the data reprocessed from scratch (too big to upload here).

http://astrob.in/11331/?r=1762

Ross G · #14 20-05-2012, 09:17 PM

I think that's one of the nicest looking Trifid photos I have seen.

Well done.

Ross.

Paul Haese · #15 20-05-2012, 09:28 PM

The last site posted one is quite nice. If you had another 5 or 6 hours worth of data, the dark dust to the right of the nebula would come out. Which camera is this with?

DJT (David) · #16 20-05-2012, 09:33 PM

Great shot Ross. repro is excellent.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #17 21-05-2012, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ross G

I think that's one of the nicest looking Trifid photos I have seen.

Well done.

Ross.

Thanks Ross. I definately need to spend more time learning to use Pixinsight. The image calibration script is quite good now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

The last site posted one is quite nice. If you had another 5 or 6 hours worth of data, the dark dust to the right of the nebula would come out. Which camera is this with?

Thanks Paul. This was taken with the QHY8.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJT

Great shot Ross. repro is excellent.

Cheers David

alpal · #18 21-05-2012, 06:59 AM

I like that image - you've managed to pick up
all the faint areas around the nebula.

RickS (Rick) · #19 21-05-2012, 07:54 AM

The PI version is very good, Peter!

Cheers,
Rick.

troypiggo (Troy) · #20 21-05-2012, 08:58 AM

Oh yeah. The dust is coming out nicely, hey. Not a bad effort for first PI full processing mate. You only needed to give it a chance.