Astrofest NGC6729

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Just got back from Astrofest. Had a great week with plenty of clear skies and great company. Haven't managed to process much yet but did have a go at this while up there.

Comments welcome.

here's the full version.
http://astrob.in/51490/

[cosmophoton (Luiz)]

Excellent image, very nice colors!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Beautiful rendition. Great colors.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeh, good one Pete, I imagine you have a bit of data to hammer through huh?

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice, Peter. Hope the rest are as good!

[Dennis]

Very nice Peter – loved the hi-res (full) version!

Cheers

Dennis

[Paul Haese]

Nice colours Peter. Good field of view too. Maybe the glob is a bit over blown but the rest looks good.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Nice and dusty! Soo jealous of the weather you had. You must've got a sackful of data. Looking forward to seeing the results.

[hotspur (Chris)]

very fine work,well done.Amazing week of weather.

[h0ughy (David)]

not too shabby Peter - what a great sample of the fest

[Nortilus (Josh)]

very nice. Worth the trip to QAF i think.

[jase (Jason)]

A ripper image, Peter! One of your best without doubt. Star colours are a real treat. More please, well done.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Beautiful rendition. Great colors.

Thanks Marc. I'm pretty happy with it.

Originally Posted by cosmophoton

Excellent image, very nice colors!

Cheers.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh, good one Pete, I imagine you have a bit of data to hammer through huh?

Mike

Thanks for the feedback Mike. I haven't counted it all up yet but there must be 10-20 objects to process. Couldn't stack up there because there was a problem with Pixinsight and didn't have internet connectivity up there. The update seemed to fix it when I got back yesterday.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Peter. Hope the rest are as good!

Thanks Rick. The refractor sure was a lot more forgiving than the Newt.

Originally Posted by Dennis

Very nice Peter – loved the hi-res (full) version!

Cheers

Dennis

Thanks Dennis. We missed you up there again!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice colours Peter. Good field of view too. Maybe the glob is a bit over blown but the rest looks good.

Thanks Paul. Would you recommend masking to keep the glob under control?

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Nice and dusty! Soo jealous of the weather you had. You must've got a sackful of data. Looking forward to seeing the results.

Cheers Troy - you should have been there!

Originally Posted by hotspur

very fine work,well done.Amazing week of weather.

Sure was.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

not too shabby Peter - what a great sample of the fest

Thanks Dave - managed to do some imaging in between the festivities!

Originally Posted by Nortilus

very nice. Worth the trip to QAF i think.

Cheers Josh.

Originally Posted by jase

A ripper image, Peter! One of your best without doubt. Star colours are a real treat. More please, well done.

Thanks for the comments Jase. Upgrading the focuser on that refractor has been a major breakthrough. It's nice to get some good results for a change!

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Thanks Paul. Would you recommend masking to keep the glob under control?

Yeah you could do that, I would use a layer mask and then do your curves adjustments etc and then mask out the glob in the process. Anything else such as stretch etc needs to operate the same way.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Thanks - I'll give it a try

[Ross G]

Great looking wide photo Peter.

Very nice colours.


Ross.