M8 and M20

[danielsun]

Hi all, been waiting for the clouds to part and finally got a chance so here is 10x12 mins stacked in Images Plus and processed in PS.
Taken with the 500D through the ED80 with a UHC-S filter.

http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/s...ESTYETOrig.jpg


Cheers Daniel.

[duncan]

Great image Daniel.An awful lot of data in there. Beautiful, crisp and clean.
I'm so envious at the moment.
Cheers,
Duncan

[TrevorW]

Very well processed and captured Daniel

[multiweb (Marc)]

Ooo yeah!

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Fantastic result. Gotta be happy with that.

[spearo (Frank)]

Great shot Daniel,
Would you consider a slight boost of the saturation?
That would make the colors come out a touch more
top shot with pinprick stars and great FOV and framing
frank

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I love this time of the year. This trickle of images from our winter sky will soon become a flood. I hope to contribute to the deluge in a month or so.
Thanks for posting.

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

Its a wee ripper !!!!!

[gregbradley]

Nice and smooth and stars are pinpoints - lovely.

Greg.

[Exfso (Peter)]

Daniel, lots of data for sure, hope you dont mind, I had a quick go at bringing out the saturation a bit. I learnt a new trick from Doug..

[PeterM]

Daniel that is absolutely superb, just the way it should be.
Congratulations on a great image.

Sorry Exfso (peter) the repro looks like the chicken vindaloo I just had, same colour (and yes that maybe just my monitor), overcooked and barely edible.
I am not so sure that repros should be presented before the original poster has been consulted.
Not being nasty, just my opinion.

PeterM.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Exfso

Daniel, lots of data for sure, hope you dont mind, I had a quick go at bringing out the saturation a bit. I learnt a new trick from Doug..

Nice image Daniel. For me the colour could be enriched/darkened a little but all in all it is a nice image from good data.

Peter, Don't blame me for that effort. Pleeeeeeeease.

[Exfso (Peter)]

ok, stuff it, I will remove it...

[mill (Martin)]

Nice one Daniel.
A tiny bit more saturation (not the Peter one ) and it will look splendid.

[Hagar (Doug)]

A difficult image to lift the saturation on due to the fact you used a UHC filter. The UHC while passing RGB also transmits a lot of the Ha and OIII both of which are common place in these nebulas.
It is a bit like managing the blend of RGB and the two NB filters all at the same time.

Very nice but best left alone and as is, you have done a great job without killing it.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by PeterM

Sorry Exfso (peter) the repro looks like the chicken vindaloo I just had, same colour (and yes that maybe just my monitor), overcooked and barely edible.

Ahhhh.. most repros by others make me laugh, rarely are they better and usually much worse

Dan the man that is a nice taste of the images to come, great to be able to fit both beauties in, well done mate!

Mike

[danielsun]

Originally Posted by duncan

Great image Daniel.An awful lot of data in there. Beautiful, crisp and clean.
I'm so envious at the moment.
Cheers,
Duncan

Thanks Duncan.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Very well processed and captured Daniel

Originally Posted by multiweb

Ooo yeah!

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Fantastic result. Gotta be happy with that.

Thanks Trevor, Marc and Troy.

Originally Posted by spearo

Great shot Daniel,
Would you consider a slight boost of the saturation?
That would make the colors come out a touch more
top shot with pinprick stars and great FOV and framing
frank

Thanks Spearo I may trygive a little more saturation.

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I love this time of the year. This trickle of images from our winter sky will soon become a flood. I hope to contribute to the deluge in a month or so.
Thanks for posting.

Thanks JJJ, yeah With the winter targets on there way I thought i'd try and get in early.

Originally Posted by Jeffkop

Its a wee ripper !!!!!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice and smooth and stars are pinpoints - lovely.

Greg.

Thank you Jeff and Greg.

Originally Posted by Exfso

Daniel, lots of data for sure, hope you dont mind, I had a quick go at bringing out the saturation a bit. I learnt a new trick from Doug..

That's O.K Pete I don't mind.

Originally Posted by PeterM

Daniel that is absolutely superb, just the way it should be.
Congratulations on a great image.






PeterM.

Thank you very much Peter.

Originally Posted by Hagar

Nice image Daniel. For me the colour could be enriched/darkened a little but all in all it is a nice image from good data.

Peter, Don't blame me for that effort. Pleeeeeeeease.

Originally Posted by mill

Nice one Daniel.
A tiny bit more saturation (not the Peter one ) and it will look splendid.

Originally Posted by Hagar

A difficult image to lift the saturation on due to the fact you used a UHC filter. The UHC while passing RGB also transmits a lot of the Ha and OIII both of which are common place in these nebulas.
It is a bit like managing the blend of RGB and the two NB filters all at the same time.

Very nice but best left alone and as is, you have done a great job without killing it.

Thanks Martin and Doug, Doug your right about the filter, I did feel that the neb was a little soft but got to a stage where any more seemed to burn it out a little so I have left it like that for now and may give it a careful tweak later.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Ahhhh.. most repros by others make me laugh, rarely are they better and usually much worse

Dan the man that is a nice taste of the images to come, great to be able to fit both beauties in, well done mate!

Mike

Thanks Mike, Positive coments from you mean alot.

[DavidTrap (David)]

Great shot. Inspiring.

DT

[DavidU (Dave)]

Great shot Dan, very natural looking to me, fine guiding as well.
All round excellent work.

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Luvverly image Daniel! Keep 'em coming for the next Compendium