Colourful LMC mosaic.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi,

Here's some Photo shop trickery to bring out HA regions while leaving the cyans in this 4 panel mosaic with an unmodded Canon 1100D.
I think it's all in the right spots.
Anyway it was good fun to do, chipped away at over the past month.

7 x 8 minute subs per panel, at ISO 1600, 4panels at f/6 220mm standard 80 to 300mm kit lens.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker .Processed in PS Cs2.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Nice bit of trickery there Justin. It looks good to me.

Cheers

Steve

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nice bit of trickery there Justin. It looks good to me.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve!

Always a little hard to know what's right.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Rex]

Beautiful Justin. Love the wild field view of this area.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Rex

Beautiful Justin. Love the wild field view of this area.

Thanks Rex!

Mosaics are fun and the best way to do the LMC.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Great result, Justin

[pluto (Hugh)]

So much stuff going on in there, nice image

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I can't see the trickery so good job! I remember when I first moved here 34 years ago I could see the LMC easy by eye, now I can barely see it and it's not just my eyes.

[Paul Haese]

Nicely composed wide field Justin. And; it looks like everyone is doing this region at the moment. Well not everyone but it is a popular area.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Beautiful Justin, well done

[atalas]

Love the LMC !great work Justin.

[RickS (Rick)]

Great mosaic'ing, Justin!

[alpal]

Hi Justin,
Very nice,
I wonder what it would look like if you split the channels -
then swapped blue & red - then recombined?

cheers
Allan

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Great result, Justin

Thanks Laurie!

Originally Posted by pluto

So much stuff going on in there, nice image

Thanks Hugh!

What really intrigues me is the different colours you get in the LMC compared to our own galactic nebula.
I wonder if someone has an explanation???

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

I can't see the trickery so good job! I remember when I first moved here 34 years ago I could see the LMC easy by eye, now I can barely see it and it's not just my eyes.

Thanks Kevin!

Light pollution sucks!!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nicely composed wide field Justin. And; it looks like everyone is doing this region at the moment. Well not everyone but it is a popular area.

Thanks Paul!

Yep, I've been following your LMC nebula images, great colour and resolution.
I've a two panel mosaic of the same area which I'll post later.

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Beautiful Justin, well done

Thanks Dunk!

Originally Posted by atalas

Love the LMC !great work Justin.

Thanks Louie!

Originally Posted by RickS

Great mosaic'ing, Justin!

Thanks Rick!

I must admit mosaics are a lot easier now with programmes like ICE, don't know if I would have the patience to do it Photo shop.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Justin,
Very nice,
I wonder what it would look like if you split the channels -
then swapped blue & red - then recombined?

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan!

That's a good idea!
Must try that out, wonder if anyone else has done that

[Andre27 (Andre)]

Great image , love it.

[Ross G]

Great looking wide photo Justin.

Nice colours and details.

Your "magic tricks" are producing better and better looking photos.

Ross.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Justin,
Very nice,
I wonder what it would look like if you split the channels -
then swapped blue & red - then recombined?

cheers
Allan

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Thanks Allan!

That's a good idea!
Must try that out, wonder if anyone else has done that

Yes - you might not need the
"Photo shop trickery to bring out HA regions" if you do that.
I've seen it done before on the LMC with DSLR data.
I think there is something about the Bayer matrix on a DSLR that causes problems with colours on the LMC & SMC.

cheers
Allan

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Andre27

Great image , love it.

Thanks Andre!

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great looking wide photo Justin.

Nice colours and details.

Your "magic tricks" are producing better and better looking photos.

Ross.

Thanks Ross!

Nothing like tarting up the image.

Originally Posted by alpal

Yes - you might not need the
"Photo shop trickery to bring out HA regions" if you do that.
I've seen it done before on the LMC with DSLR data.
I think there is something about the Bayer matrix on a DSLR that causes problems with colours on the LMC & SMC.

cheers
Allan

Thanks for that Allan!

Cheers,

Justin.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

lovely work Justin - looks just "right"

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! That's very nice. Love the colors.