superdeep Lagoon nebula

[tornado33]

Howdy
Seeing the weathers no good for imaging now I dug up the images of the Lagoon I took just after the scopes mirror was recoated a month or so back, and tonight reprocessed them in IRIS again, but using some enhancement functions, like Logarithm, dynamic and colour stretching.
3x5 mins ISO 1600, uv/ir, uhc-s filters, MPCC, 10 inch F5.6 scope, modded 350d camera.
Scott

[TidaLpHasE]

What an awsome image Scott, a feast for the eyes.

[tornado33]

Thanks.
Ive come to realise only 1/2 the battle for imaging is at the telescope, the other half is on the PC processing them lol.
Scott

[RB (Andrew)]

That is one seriously spectacular image Scott.
Wow

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Hmmmm? I dunno?...looks a bit lipstick red to me..?..too much saturation maybe?

Mike

[Striker (Tony)]

Even though I know what Mike is saying...I think it looks great Scott.

My first impression was WOW...looks amazing.

[Lester]

Well I like it Scott,

But then I have not done my apprenticeship in deep sky imaging yet.

[tornado33]

thanks.
I must practice more with the color stretching, its very touchy, can do too much or too little.
Scott

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Thanks Scott
I now have my latest wallpaper for my PC screen
I love the dark globules that show up in this image !

[Rodstar (Rod)]

Scott, lovely capture of different layers of nebulosity. Very pretty. Thanks for sharing.

[Striker (Tony)]

To a true professional you need precise colour Scott...it's great that more experienced astrophotographers here can step in and guide us.....but to most of us true colour does not provide as much detail.....it's all personal isn't it....if you like the colouring and enhancements then thats what it's all about.

I've looked at your image 3 times now and 3 times I have been amazed.

[spearo (Frank)]

Lovely shot Scott!
I think i figured out what I like about it: the smoothness of the background contrasted by nice sharp star spikes (are you using fishing line?).

Someone did say once that that the color is a bit of a personal matter, some like it redder than others. Personnally, unless i could go there in person and had eyes that allowed me to register the color "au naturel" i dont know that I can comment on the color.

If you like it that's what matters i guess.

Maybe we could have a forum sometime where we show our unprocessed pics and the final image to see how we each like to vary them in our own way.

Lovely image, great work.

I say frame it and put it on the wall!

frank

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

very nice scott. thats got to be a framed picture.

[astroboy]

Another stunner Scott
I think the colour is great , I think true colour is a myth anyway if it was true to what we see through the scopes it would be grey green.
Keep up the great work Scott , I hope to get back onto the DSLR stuff again but things have been flat out .
Your shots an inspiration to get me back onto it.

Zane

[h0ughy (David)]

:d :p

[tornado33]

Many thanks all.
I guess the advantage tri colour imaging with dedicated astro cameras is precice colour, with filteres like these
http://www.astrodon.com/whyastrodon/whyastrodon.cfm
tru balance means same exposures for each colour gives accurate colour balance.
Scott

[ving (David)]

deep as!!
on ya scott

boy is it red!

[Doug]

G'day Scott, it is a great image. Mike has a point in that the red is a bit red, but that is not to say that the image suffers for it.
Astrodon true balance filters do not necessarily mean true colour. true colour is probably best realised using some G2V reference stars. But then others would argue differently, so, you go with what pleases you.

cheers,
Doug

[venus (Lydia)]

Simply Plasmagoric Scott!