M20 Triffid Nebula

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

Hi guys,

Here's an early M20 taken last last night with the unmodded 350D. 10 x 5 minutes at ISO800 with the C10 F4.7 autoguided ED80 + Meade DSI II. MPCC and UHC-S filter used.

Cheers

[RB (Andrew)]

Very nice Eric.

[FOOTPRINT]

Hi Eric,
Great detail, sharp focus, however too much blue (it overides everything else) bit more processing required for correct colour balance, youll be right when the 300D arrives.

cheers...Jim

[h0ughy (David)]

nice image, just the vignetting needs to be looked at. So when does your modded 300D come?

[tornado33]

Great shot there Eric. Hope you dont mind, but I oopened it in Photoshop, then used gratient exterminator plugin to fraw a circle round the nebula, then ran it, it also automatically balances the sky background as it goes. What do you think?
Scott

[Garyh]

Very nice image of M20, Eric......I think your biggest problem would be the light pollution and Vignetting causing the cyan centre.
Do you take a flat field image at all Eric? or maybe replace the secondary mirror for a bigger one? to stop vignetting.
But other than that i think that new newt of your`s is taking some real nice pixs...much better than that optec 8" one thats for sure..

Originally Posted by tornado33

Great shot there Eric. Hope you dont mind, but I oopened it in Photoshop, then used gratient exterminator plugin to fraw a circle round the nebula, then ran it, it also automatically balances the sky background as it goes. What do you think?
Scott

That worked a treat Scott!!...

[DobDobDob (Ron)]

I like the original and then loved the reworked image, the Trifid Nebula is just so spectacular, you have captured the essence of it

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

cheers guys thanks. the 300d is on its way here houghy from sweden. should be here i reckon late next week. no worries at all scott. your version looks good. I can see what you mean now the gradient in the centre. I have gradient exterminator but how do u frame an area? i normally use medium for both settings without ticking colour balance. Hi Gary. The cyan centre i think is mainly caused from the baader uhc-s filter. all my light frames are cyan. without the filter, it is white. hehe much better than my previous 8" scope i had! very happy with the C10 thanks Ron, Jim & Andrew.

[sheeny (Al)]

Beautiful work Eric.

Al.