horsehead and flame nebula

[IanP]

Horsehead and Flame Nebula

90 images (120s @ISO1600) taken over two days from our courtyard close to Perth’s CBD ..
Cam: EOS 60Da
Scope: ED80TCF
Guiding: PHD guided CPC925
Stacked and processed in PixInsight …
Higher res: http://westcoastpics23.blogspot.com.au/

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Very nice Ian, well done

[RB (Andrew)]

I agree, it's a very nice result indeed Ian !

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Very nice result!

[IanP]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Very nice result!

Thank you Laurie ...

[IanP]

Originally Posted by RB

I agree, it's a very nice result indeed Ian !

Thanks Andrew ...

[IanP]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Very nice Ian, well done

Cheers Rod !

[astronobob (Bob)]

Danngg ! ! Nothing wrong with this in my opinion Ian, Dam jealous of it actually, very clean work ! ! I dig the Full field too, some horsey clos-up just dont look ballanced, compositon wise !

Great Job

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Ian.

Nice colours.

Ross.

[kjant (Kym)]

If this is from a suburban sky I am in awe, very nice. Not to mention I am waiting at this moment for delivery of my own new ED80t CF. If I cannot get a result very similar from suburban Adelaide, we will be speaking again!

Cheers Kym.

[IanP]

Originally Posted by kjant

if i cannot get a result very similar from suburban adelaide, we will be speaking again!
Cheers kym.

ok

[John Hothersall]

Superb result but you could brighten it up a great deal using shadow and highlight in PS and bring out the wonderful dark material. Great result for CBD.

John.

[Gem (Grant)]

Nice! The only comment I would make is that the darker areas could be a touch darker... but it looks great! Classic Horsehead.

[alistairsam]

That looks amazing for 2 minute subs, although that adds up to 3 hrs.
Did you use a LP filter?
Wasn't the moon over 90%? How did you manage that?
Well done

[TrevorW]

As said a classic HH nicely done

[IanP]

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Superb result but you could brighten it up a great deal using shadow and highlight in PS and bring out the wonderful dark material. Great result for CBD.
John.

Thanks John,
I think by brightening it up I’ll display some noise (it’s like greenish background ) that I managed to heavily reduced by the magic of the PixInsight dynamic background extraction and ACDNR.
After PixInsight there is really not much one can do in PS.
#IP

[IanP]

Originally Posted by Gem

Nice! The only comment I would make is that the darker areas could be a touch darker... but it looks great! Classic Horsehead.

Thanks Grant

[IanP]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

As said a classic HH nicely done

Cheers Trevor ..

[IanP]

Originally Posted by alistairsam

That looks amazing for 2 minute subs, although that adds up to 3 hrs.
Did you use a LP filter?
Wasn't the moon over 90%? How did you manage that?
Well done

Thanks Alistar,
I didn’t use the Astronomic CLC LP filter because it changes the colour balance – everything is so “blueish”. Maybe I still don’t know which option to select in the camera colour balance …
So, no filter, no Moon, and I waited till all neighbours switched off their lights …
#IP

[niko]

just lovely!