Reprocess of cosmic vomit

[Paul Haese]

Leo's latest image of Antares and IC4605 prompted me to take another look at my own data of the same area. By comparison my image was desaturated and seemed to contain far less detail. So I have reprocessed the image to look more like cosmic vomit. I'll leave that up to others to determine whether the saturation is over the top.

Click here for larger resolution image.

BTW the mosaic is well underway for the next panel. I just need some clear sky and no moon to complete the second panel.

[astroboof (Steve McN)]

That's the famous Carrot nebula, constellation Vomitus Sputum ?

Well it looks quite amazing to me Paul, you guys at the pointy end really blow me away with the quality achieved in the last decade.

Cheers for the fine view.

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by astroboof

That's the famous Carrot nebula, constellation Vomitus Sputum ?

Well it looks quite amazing to me Paul, you guys at the pointy end really blow me away with the quality achieved in the last decade.

Cheers for the fine view.

Thanks Steve, there have been quite a few developments in the last 10 years. Equipment and processing techniques have had a great impact on the results.

I was wondering how long it has been since you were here. What year was it now? Seems like about 4 years to me but it might have been more. Anymore epic journey's planned?

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Much better this Paul ... the previous seems you had the FSQ broken.

All the best,
Leo

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Love the saturation there Paul, and all that dust looks great. The area near Antares is truly full of action and seems very 3D with the contrast between the dust structures, the nebulae and the globulars. Great work

[RickS (Rick)]

Looking forward to some more panels, Paul!

[astroboof (Steve McN)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Thanks Steve, there have been quite a few developments in the last 10 years. Equipment and processing techniques have had a great impact on the results.

I was wondering how long it has been since you were here. What year was it now? Seems like about 4 years to me but it might have been more. Anymore epic journey's planned?

I think it was late 2010, great times, good weather and fine cycling life.
For the past two and a half years it's been a more regular life. My partner and I go on short local tours of up to a week a couple times a year. Next year we plan to have a six week tour of Germany, she is my tour guide I reckon. - I met her on the very day I returned home 18 months later.

Yes, software, I'm still in regi-5 and k tools land, ancient history!

Cheers and all the best.
Steve.

[Ross G]

I like this even better than the previous version Paul.

I love the strong, saturated colours.

Again, the "rays" shooting out from Antares really make the photo for me.

Ross.

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by Leonardo70

Much better this Paul ... the previous seems you had the FSQ broken.

All the best,
Leo

Hmm not Broken Leo, just under processed. I'll be pushing harder on the next panel.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Love the saturation there Paul, and all that dust looks great. The area near Antares is truly full of action and seems very 3D with the contrast between the dust structures, the nebulae and the globulars. Great work

Thanks Rolf, my normal processing techniques had little effect on the 3D effect, so I tried using a HDR mask and it seemed to work better. The moral to the story is that we continue to learn if we keep expanding our wants how an image should look.

Originally Posted by RickS

Looking forward to some more panels, Paul!

With the way this winter is hitting here I am betting I might get another panel completed and perhaps another after than on this area this year. I doubt I will get a fourth done.

Originally Posted by Ross G

I like this even better than the previous version Paul.

I love the strong, saturated colours.

Again, the "rays" shooting out from Antares really make the photo for me.

Ross.

Thanks Ross. Yes the rays are not intentional. Not my favourite but if you like them that is good. Its a weird effect. Not sure why those are there. I am not going out of my way to remove them, but don't really want to do anything that exaggerates them either.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Well I thought the first one was pretty good Paul but that certainly looks better.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

That's pretty colourful for you Paul. I think you get colour very right in your images so I don't think being influenced by others' Antares images is the way to go.

Antares is blasting away there with sunstars. Perhaps 20 minutes is too long for such a bright star especially at F5. But then if you are doing a mosaic and you change your exposure times it will be hard to stitch. Its the hardest panel to take because Antares is so bright.
Decisions decisions.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Well I thought the first one was pretty good Paul but that certainly looks better.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's pretty colourful for you Paul. I think you get colour very right in your images so I don't think being influenced by others' Antares images is the way to go.

Antares is blasting away there with sunstars. Perhaps 20 minutes is too long for such a bright star especially at F5. But then if you are doing a mosaic and you change your exposure times it will be hard to stitch. Its the hardest panel to take because Antares is so bright.
Decisions decisions.

Greg.

Thanks for the compliment Greg. I often agonise over whether the saturation is enough or not. To me this is very technicolour, but to others it might well be just right.

You could be right that 20 minutes might be too much. Time will tell, once I start completing some of the other panels. It might prove quite hard to balance out all the panels.