Eagle nebula finished ?

mill (Martin) · #1 23-05-2010, 08:47 PM

The Eagle nebula done with my ED80 and QHY mono.
HA 15X5 Minutes and 25X20 Minutes.
Luminance 17X5 Minutes
RGB 10X200 Seconds Each

1Mb file here, cropped a bit: http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/t...gle_done-1.jpg

Small image here:

TrevorW · #2 23-05-2010, 08:52 PM

Great image Martin plenty of detail etc maybe needs longer on RGB to bring out the star colours

Cheers

mill (Martin) · #3 23-05-2010, 08:58 PM

Thank you Trevor

Wanted to do some more RGB tonight but it will be cloudy and raining for the rest of the week (maybe Sunday night).
PS when merging with HA the star colors are getting a bit washed out

TrevorW · #4 23-05-2010, 09:11 PM

Try a saturation layer select stars only

Paul Haese · #5 23-05-2010, 09:47 PM

Heaps of data there Martin. 25 subs at 20 minutes. Wow. Colours need some tweeking and your polar alignment is still resulting in field rotation. Image is very smooth and has awesome potential.

bloodhound31 · #6 24-05-2010, 12:09 AM

That's one big molecular cloud with a lot going on inside it!

Baz.

multiweb (Marc) · #7 24-05-2010, 07:56 AM

Great shot Martin. Well done indeed.

RB (Andrew) · #8 24-05-2010, 08:25 AM

I like how the image just draws you into the centre and then you start to notice all the detail.

Lovely shot Martin.

gregbradley · #9 24-05-2010, 08:34 AM

Very deep image. Lots of Ha detail there. The red is too dominant though and that is coming from your Ha blend. The Ha is dominating the colour.
There should be some light blues in the centre and the stars should have more colour.

Have a look at Rob Gendlers website as he has some Ha blending methods that can help there. Ha blending is an art as Ha can easily take over the image. Probably a Ha and Luminance combine first. You can also add a bit of Ha as a luminosity layer with the opacity slider down a bit (maybe only 15%) to get detail as well but it will weaken colours and shift colours a lot so in moderation only.

Greg.

Astrobserver99 (Rob) · #10 24-05-2010, 04:12 PM

As usual, it's a great result from you Martin...keep going...

mill (Martin) · #11 24-05-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by TrevorW

Try a saturation layer select stars only

Thank you for the tip Trevor (i feel a repro coming up).

Quote:

Originally Posted by bloodhound31

That's one big molecular cloud with a lot going on inside it!

Baz.

Thank you Baz

Quote:

Originally Posted by RB

I like how the image just draws you into the centre and then you start to notice all the detail.

Lovely shot Martin.

Thank you Andrew

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very deep image. Lots of Ha detail there. The red is too dominant though and that is coming from your Ha blend. The Ha is dominating the colour.
There should be some light blues in the centre and the stars should have more colour.

Have a look at Rob Gendlers website as he has some Ha blending methods that can help there. Ha blending is an art as Ha can easily take over the image. Probably a Ha and Luminance combine first. You can also add a bit of Ha as a luminosity layer with the opacity slider down a bit (maybe only 15%) to get detail as well but it will weaken colours and shift colours a lot so in moderation only.

Greg.

Thans for the good tips Greg and i will have a look at the website

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astrobserver99

As usual, it's a great result from you Martin...keep going...

Thank you Rob

Hagar (Doug) · #12 24-05-2010, 07:02 PM

Big Big nebula Martin.. Lots of exposure to work with makes for a nice image. It almost looks like the pillars have been placed into the image though. You might want to try lifting the contrast of the pillars without brightening the core quite so much..

NHice work with a big effort. Well done.

DavidU (Dave) · #13 24-05-2010, 08:03 PM

That image is a beaut. Awesome data from that ED80 ! (I must get one)

Bassnut (Fred) · #14 24-05-2010, 08:11 PM

Top work Martin, nice to see the neb extention from the oft imaged middle bit.

mill (Martin) · #15 24-05-2010, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Hagar

Big Big nebula Martin.. Lots of exposure to work with makes for a nice image. It almost looks like the pillars have been placed into the image though. You might want to try lifting the contrast of the pillars without brightening the core quite so much..

NHice work with a big effort. Well done.

Thank you Doug

I am redoing it all now with all the tips i got and it starts to look better

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidU

That image is a beaut. Awesome data from that ED80 ! (I must get one)

Thank you David

The ED80 is a top performer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Top work Martin, nice to see the neb extention from the oft imaged middle bit.

Thank you Fred

Now i am redoing this picture it looks better and better

If only knew more processing tricks

Vanda (Ian) · #16 24-05-2010, 08:54 PM

Sometimes I think you great astrophographers are a bit hard on yourselves! Looks beautiful.

desler · #17 24-05-2010, 10:30 PM

I have to agree with Ian, Lovely image Martin.

Seems to me the more data you have, the more we push the boundaries with our processing skills!; the learning curve continues.

Keep it up!

Darren

mill (Martin) · #18 24-05-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanda

Sometimes I think you great astrophographers are a bit hard on yourselves! Looks beautiful.

Thank you Ian

The problem is that once you start to make your pictures better, you will see more and more flaws in your own pictures

Quote:

Originally Posted by desler

I have to agree with Ian, Lovely image Martin.

Seems to me the more data you have, the more we push the boundaries with our processing skills!; the learning curve continues.

Keep it up!

Darren

Thanks mate

As you would know it is getting harder to squeeze the last drop out of it and i know now that i have done the sequence totally wrong

Darn