NGC6334 narrowband

gregbradley · #1 22-11-2015, 03:18 PM

I took this a while ago. I added to it as clear nights became available.

9 hours and 10 minutes of narrowband plus some colour. I played with the colour palette for a while and settled on this which is a bit unusual but I thought it looked the best of the versions I made.

I like the tendrilled nebula the best. It looks like the jellyfish nebula in the northern hemisphere nebulas we don't see here.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/161900896/large regular size

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...00896/original large size

Greg.

Slawomir (Suavi) · #2 22-11-2015, 03:31 PM

Really nice shot Greg!

I really like the colours, and my favourite would be the "sea shell" nebula in the top left

gregbradley · #3 22-11-2015, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Slawomir

Really nice shot Greg!

I really like the colours, and my favourite would be the "sea shell" nebula in the top left

Thanks Slawomir. Its an unusual palette and I used that link you sent me for the modified Hubble. Its not exactly that but it was based on it.

Greg.

RickS (Rick) · #4 22-11-2015, 03:41 PM

I like the colouring too, Greg. Not as angry looking as my last effort

gregbradley · #5 22-11-2015, 04:10 PM

Thanks Rick.

I've added an alternate colour version which is more saturated.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/161900896/large

Greg.

RickS (Rick) · #6 22-11-2015, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by gregbradley

I've added an alternate colour version which is more saturated.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/161900896/large

I think that lifts it just a little more, Greg.

Atmos (Colin) · #7 22-11-2015, 04:51 PM

At first glance it looks a bit like the Cats Paw. Very nice shot and interesting colour pallet

gregbradley · #8 22-11-2015, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by RickS

I think that lifts it just a little more, Greg.

Thanks Rick. Yes I like it better. The original is a bit muted for my taste as I generally prefer saturated colour.

Greg.

gregbradley · #9 22-11-2015, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Atmos

At first glance it looks a bit like the Cats Paw. Very nice shot and interesting colour pallet

Yep its the Cats Paw. It looks a lot different in narrowband doesn't it?

I think narrowband suits this object as it can be a bit boring in LRGB.

Greg.

Placidus (Mike and Trish) · #10 22-11-2015, 05:01 PM

Very sharp and very nicely detailed, Greg. Well processed. Nice balance between faint features and bright detail.

The unusual colour mapping caused us to look at in a fresh light, which was fun.

What colours have you mapped H-alpha and OIII to? Our guess is blue for H-alpha and a sort of salmon for OIII.

gregbradley · #11 22-11-2015, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Placidus

Very sharp and very nicely detailed, Greg. Well processed. Nice balance between faint features and bright detail.

The unusual colour mapping caused us to look at in a fresh light, which was fun.

What colours have you mapped H-alpha and OIII to? Our guess is blue for H-alpha and a sort of salmon for OIII.

Thanks Mike. Its green to Ha red to S11 and blue to O111 as usual but then some shifts per the modified Hubble palette of Rob Franke I think it was and then some tweaking using the selective colour tool, extra blending layers.

Greg.

Andy01 (Andy) · #12 22-11-2015, 05:56 PM

Well that's a sexy image isn't it!
Deep, moody & spot on with your choice of colour in the saturated version

You've gotta be happy with that

Slawomir (Suavi) · #13 22-11-2015, 06:00 PM

The second version with more saturated colours is even better, I reckon it deserves a quality print and some space on a wall in the living room

gregbradley · #14 22-11-2015, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Andy01

Well that's a sexy image isn't it!
Deep, moody & spot on with your choice of colour in the saturated version

You've gotta be happy with that

Thanks Andy. High praise from you and Slawomir - the local narrowband kings of the trade!

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Originally Posted by Slawomir

The second version with more saturated colours is even better, I reckon it deserves a quality print and some space on a wall in the living room

Thanks for that. It turned out good in the end. I took a long time to process it to where I was happy. I have found a number of my imaging projects are a bit stalled as the processing doesn't go to a place where I am happy.
PixInsight has been helpful in a few of those.

Greg.