Lovely image, H, grouse widefield picking up the GC aswell, !
My nana always suggested 'chicken' soup when down crook, it was a dead chook tho, Lol :-)
Get well soon !
That's excellent, Humayun! Rich and detailed. The cluster adds a lot. You've almost converted us to adding RGB stars to a narrowband image - it worked very well.
60 hours: a long time at the helm. A great result.
Thanks, mate. Your ColorMask script is a life saver.
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Originally Posted by RickS
That looks very nice, H!
Thanks, David.
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Originally Posted by DJT
I like that. Nicely done.
Colin,
Cheers, bud. It looks even better rotated 180 degrees, in my opinion. Perhaps I should have presented it in that way for more of compositional- impact.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Excellent shot H!
It is in fact one of the very few shots where I can distinctly make out the chicken!
Bob,
Haha, thanks. I'm much better now, thanks.
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Lovely image, H, grouse widefield picking up the GC aswell, !
My nana always suggested 'chicken' soup when down crook, it was a dead chook tho, Lol :-)
Get well soon !
Mike,
Thanks, mate. Glad you think so.
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Overall an excellent image Humayun, its crisp and the colour looks good and best of all, the whole damn chicken is well shown! b-Gurk!
Thanks, so much, mate. Praise from you means the world to me.
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Originally Posted by atalas
Stars tight as a fishes butt,detail colour looks good, and contrast is nice and lots of signal in a great field....awesome
Mike & Trish,
Thanks, guys.
Give it a go! I've got lots of practicing to do to get the blend perfect, too.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
That's excellent, Humayun! Rich and detailed. The cluster adds a lot. You've almost converted us to adding RGB stars to a narrowband image - it worked very well.
60 hours: a long time at the helm. A great result.
Best,
Mike and Trish
Martin,
Thank you, sir!
And, yes, the FSQ-106N is a dream. I won't be parting with this one!
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Originally Posted by Martin Pugh
A nice wide vista of this field, with good colour.
As for tight stars....well what do you expect, you have an FSQ!
Nice job
Cheers
Martin
Andy,
Glad you like the stars.
Sure does look like that character!
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Lovely image, great natural look to it and the stars are amazing
Very nice piece
PS: As mentioned elsewhere, I still reckon it looks like Ja-Ja Binks!
I suspect there is more that can be brought out. I created a synthetic luminance with the three channel masters. All added at 1/3rd signal from each. I, however, did no further processing on that synthetic luminance. There is so much data contributed by the hydrogen alpha channel. In actual fact, to get the colours to start to balance out properly, I had to add the SII and OIII at 10 times the ratio of hydrogen alpha. I might have another stab at it and process the synthetic luminance before adding the other channels.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Beautiful field and lovely colour H! A great image!
With 68 hours of integration though, isn't there some more depth you could tease out?
Pete,
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by Retrograde
Yes that looks exquisite. Great work!
Tim,
Much appreciated!
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Wow!
A beautiful deep wide field image!!
Congratulations!
Cheers,
Tim
Suavi,
Thanks a lot, mate!
It is a truly beautiful region of the sky. There's a considerable amount of dust on the outskirts, too. I'll do a mosaic when it's back in a favourable position.
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
A spectacular image Humayun
Emission nebula, Bok globules, star cluster, planetary nebula...so much to explore!
That's an excellent result Humi.
Did the image progress much after say 15 hours though?
With noise reducing at.the.square root of the increase in time you get rapidly.diminishing returns. Some objects that are super faint seem to come alive
But a relatively bright nebula may not progress much.
I've never done that long on a single image so I am curious if there were benefits.
Greg
68 hrs
