Horse head data repro with 8 hours of Lum

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Just caught up with this, Paul. Big improvement. It's amazing what difference processing can make. I reckon it's 90% of the deal. In this case it looks like a different photo. Different colour balance, more saturation, significantly more stars etc. You can also see clearly in the 2nd that Alnitak is a double - -a lot less obvious in the first. Great job.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by Rigel003

Just caught up with this, Paul. Big improvement. It's amazing what difference processing can make. I reckon it's 90% of the deal. In this case it looks like a different photo. Different colour balance, more saturation, significantly more stars etc. You can also see clearly in the 2nd that Alnitak is a double - -a lot less obvious in the first. Great job.

Yes - the new pic gave me a good idea about Alnitak.
I re-processed my mosaic of Orion with some 1x1 & 2x2
subframes taken at much shorter exposure layered in & sure enough
the second star came out.
There was a bonus in that NGC 2023 finally appeared correctly.
It's only small data & noisy compared to Paul's but it's on my flickr photos.
Paul has done well.

cheers
Allan

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by Rigel003

Just caught up with this, Paul. Big improvement. It's amazing what difference processing can make. I reckon it's 90% of the deal. In this case it looks like a different photo. Different colour balance, more saturation, significantly more stars etc. You can also see clearly in the 2nd that Alnitak is a double - -a lot less obvious in the first. Great job.

Yes this is a bit of an accident as I did not do any control over Alnitak's brightness, but the blending of the data did present a less over whelming view of the star and its halo.

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Wow! That is amazing! Love the details in the curtain. Stunning work!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Superb. The added details and colours are very obvious.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for taking the time to make a comment.

[allan gould]

I thought that I had commented on this image Paul but looks like i didnt. I really like the reproduction or second image except that I think the blue areas below and to the left of the horse are more appealing to me in the first iteration.
The flame area is better in the second while the red area above and to the left of the flame looks better in the first as the wisps of blue gas appear better defined while in the second is an uninteresting red blob. They just seem to have a bit more depth and interest.
Great shot anyhow and better than anything I've done.
Allan

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by allan gould

I thought that I had commented on this image Paul but looks like i didnt. I really like the reproduction or second image except that I think the blue areas below and to the left of the horse are more appealing to me in the first iteration.
The flame area is better in the second while the red area above and to the left of the flame looks better in the first as the wisps of blue gas appear better defined while in the second is an uninteresting red blob. They just seem to have a bit more depth and interest.
Great shot anyhow and better than anything I've done.
Allan

Hmmm perhaps some masking in of the various areas needs to be done. I can see where you are coming from here. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Might be a repro Paul, but what an impressive repro Much more Vibrant, more details in overall, tho yeah, i agree with allan on the red neb at left but generally a massive & impressive improvement

[BruceG (Bruce)]

Simply Stunning! Jaw dropping detail and depth.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys.

It goes to show Bob, sometimes it is worth just looking over the data again.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Great one Paul! I love the detail you got on this one, remarkable!
Clear skies
Marco