Pipe Nebula and M8

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

The first night at Astrofest I imaged the Pipe nebula using a Pentax 67 SMC 200mm lens and QHY10.

For some fun I thought I'd add to it and have produced a Two Panel Mosaic including M8

The Pipe was 35 x 5min subs and M8 was 18 x 5min.

Processed in Pixinsight and stitched with Microsoft ICE.

Larger image here http://www.astrobin.com/206259/

Comments , Suggestions Welcome

Cheers Geoff

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Comments: That's bloody great Geoff!

Suggestions: None, it's bloody great!...(ok, well maybe juuust slightly too much smoothing/noise reduction?) but still bloody great.

Well done

Always wanted to get some good 6X7 Pentax lenses onto my ProLine16803 but never did....

Mike

[allan gould]

Outstanding Geoff. "My god its full of stars" comes to mind. A great capture
Allan

[batema (Mark)]

Agree. That looks fantastic. Well done.

[AstroJason (Jason)]

That does look great, love the aperture spikes around the stars. So much going on in that. Do you think you'll add more panels to this?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Outstanding Geoff! The field is great and the colours superb.

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Comments: That's bloody great Geoff!

Suggestions: None, it's bloody great!...(ok, well maybe juuust slightly too much smoothing/noise reduction?) but still bloody great.

Well done

Always wanted to get some good 6X7 Pentax lenses onto my ProLine16803 but never did....

Mike

Thanks Mike, appreciate your kind comments. BTW this lens tends to give a red halo around the stars after batch processing. It took a while in Pixinsight, thankfully i now have a process that reduces the halo sufficiently to give a nice image

Originally Posted by allan gould

Outstanding Geoff. "My god its full of stars" comes to mind. A great capture
Allan

Thanks Allan, always amazed at the extent of star fields in this part of the sky

Originally Posted by batema

Agree. That looks fantastic. Well done.

Thanks Mark, appreciate your comments

Originally Posted by AstroJason

That does look great, love the aperture spikes around the stars. So much going on in that. Do you think you'll add more panels to this?

Jason, not sure if ill add to this one, it was a test to try out a few processes and luckily it all seemed to come together

Originally Posted by multiweb

Outstanding Geoff! The field is great and the colours superb.

Cheers Mark, I love the colour pallet in this part of the milky way as well

[Octane (Humayun)]

A unique view. Top stuff!

H

[h0ughy (David)]

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by Octane

A unique view. Top stuff!

H

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Thanks Guys, glad you liked it

Geoff

[gregbradley]

Very nice Geoff.

Just a hint of purplish/pink chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration slider in Lightroom gets rid of that or reduce magentas in Photoshop does it too.

Greg.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Nicely done Geoff. There's plenty going on in that field. and the stitching is very smooth.

Peter

[Rex]

As has been said, absolutely beautiful Geoff.

[RobF (Rob)]

Wow, this really appeals Geoff. Congrats for going off the beaten track and bringing back the bootie to show for it

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Geoff.

Just a hint of purplish/pink chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration slider in Lightroom gets rid of that or reduce magentas in Photoshop does it too.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I'll have a look at Lightroom

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Nicely done Geoff. There's plenty going on in that field. and the stitching is very smooth.

Peter

Thanks Peter, ICE seems to do a nice job on the stitching

Originally Posted by Rex

As has been said, absolutely beautiful Geoff.

Thanks Rex, glad you liked it

Originally Posted by RobF

Wow, this really appeals Geoff. Congrats for going off the beaten track and bringing back the bootie to show for it

Thanks Rob, should be able to get a few more milkyway wide fields with this lens/camera combo

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Lovely mate. Must check out that lens some time

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Thanks Troy, I tried out your Violet Removal script and it works quite well on the stars

Geoff

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Awesome

[RickS (Rick)]

Very cool result, Geoff!

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Very cool result, Geoff!

Thanks Rick, glad you liked it

Geoff