Two good nights with the usual eating, drinking and singing (remember to watch The Feed on SBS Mon 3 Oct 7:30 ), even if one was cut short by some early morning cloud and the other by low battery power Taking the week off work has already paid dirt
NGC 300 really is a beautiful galaxy but can seem rather plain looking with standard LRGB processing, so I have used 2hrs of Halpha (Magenta Red patches) and 1 hr of OIII (Teal Green patches) to enhance and highlight the extensive star forming regions across the galaxy, there are just so many, they are pock marked right along the arms . Funny how the big star birth areas are in closer to the core.
Seeing was "ok" but not great, like it has been lately...but lot's of background galaxies still
Awesome! Trish and I just spent something like half an hour floating around in there. Adding not just the Ha but adding the OIII as teal certainly worked. The effect is a bit like some of the more colourful and violent star-forming regions in the LMC.
We especially like the way you've brought out a great deal of detail and colour close to the nucleus.
You've also captured lots of interesting distant fellows.
Very nice Mike, love it! So many tiny galaxies in the background! Even better seeing some galaxies bleeding through the spiral arms. The full frame was a pleasure to look around.
Gorgeous Mike! A deep and rich field with some great detail and the colours looks good ... although you might want to mitigate the slight salmon hue in the HII regions.
That is a beautiful rendition, very enjoyable to sift through.
Good one Pavarotti!
Steve
Grazie Sinor Mohr
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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Mike,
it's a great picture & you've gone very deep to get all those galaxies.
I'm glad you were able to pick up so much with the Ha filter.
cheers
Allan
Cheers Alan, more Ha and OIII could be taken for sure (in fact all filters), however I was just looking for a slight enhancement, just to give some life to the galaxy, at only 7 Million light years there is little red-shift in the emission lines and I have 6nm filters, so always worth grabbing some to add to the mixing pot
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
all i see are some smudges and glittery bits . in awe as per usual!!
Smudges are my specialty...particularly dwarf smudges
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Awesome! Trish and I just spent something like half an hour floating around in there. Adding not just the Ha but adding the OIII as teal certainly worked. The effect is a bit like some of the more colourful and violent star-forming regions in the LMC.
We especially like the way you've brought out a great deal of detail and colour close to the nucleus.
You've also captured lots of interesting distant fellows.
Best,
Mike
Thanks Mike, we are definitely in this game for the similar reasons...to have fun and enjoy ourselves, always great to read your feedback
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Stunning Mike, great detail, colour & clever use of the NB blended with the RGB.
Should be the next IIS photo of the month I reckon!
Cheers Andy ...oh I am pretty sure that van Gogh will be up there for a few months yet
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Originally Posted by Geoff45
Another ripper Mike! Adding Ha is often done, but adding the OIII is an interesting technique which you don't usually see.
Geoff
Thanks Geoff, with such a close galaxy grabbing some emission line data is always worth it.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Very nice Mike, love it! So many tiny galaxies in the background! Even better seeing some galaxies bleeding through the spiral arms. The full frame was a pleasure to look around.
Yeah I like seeing or identifying distant galaxies shining through the foreground galaxy too, always seems so improbable
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Originally Posted by dylan_odonnell
Stunning work as usual Mike! Great use of the bands to add to the colour palette.
Thanks Dylan, had to do something to bring this largely blue galaxy to life
Gorgeous Mike! A deep and rich field with some great detail and the colours looks good ... although you might want to mitigate the slight salmon hue in the HII regions.
Cheers, Marcus
Thanks Marcus I did fiddle with the HII regions a bit trying to settle on something I liked, however the OIII-Ha mix seems to really change the colour hues, even between different patches across the galaxy, compared to just using Ha data only, which is the usual approach...so I am claiming physics is on my side this time ...btw I found decon was not effective on this galaxy so I didn't use any
That's great, Mike! The Ha/Oiii adds a lot of interest and detail. It would be interesting to see in pure bi-colour narrowband too. I did that with M33 a while back and thought it looked pretty cool... like seeing the skeleton of the galaxy.
Yeah well at only 6 Million light years you can get a bit of detail in this baby Louie
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A ripper image Mike. I like this galaxy too. Its very photogenic.
Greg.
Cheers Greg, I agree although I have found that often this galaxy can look fairly monochrome, hence the wacky NB twist
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Originally Posted by RickS
That's great, Mike! The Ha/Oiii adds a lot of interest and detail. It would be interesting to see in pure bi-colour narrowband too. I did that with M33 a while back and thought it looked pretty cool... like seeing the skeleton of the galaxy.
Cheers,
Rick.
Yes, I remember your all NB M33, t'was a cracker mate, Mike and Trish did a real deep HII shot of NGC300 last year too.
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Originally Posted by Stevec35
Nothing much to say Mike except that's an excellent NGC 300 IMHO. It's certainly a more attrative object than NGC 1291.
Cheers
Steve
Thanks Steve, glad you liked it, I haven't imaged this galaxy since hitting it with my ED80 back in 2004 from Googong...I think my latest image is an improvement
), even if one was cut short by some early morning cloud and the other by low battery power 
Taking the week off work has already paid dirt 
. Funny how the big star birth areas are in closer to the core.
. in awe as per usual!!
...btw I found decon was not effective on this galaxy so I didn't use any 
