Quite exceptional Greg! I have to admit I was getting sick of wide field horse head images because they all look the same. I think you've lifted the bar significantly.
Quite exceptional Greg! I have to admit I was getting sick of wide field horse head images because they all look the same. I think you've lifted the bar significantly.
Cheers
Steve
Thanks Steve. I liked the FOV but was a bit unsure if I was over the top on the colour. This is the "toned down" version!.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Very nice, Greg! I like the subtle reflection nebulosity at mid-left especially.
Thanks Rick. Yes the scope seemed to pick up some interesting details.
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Originally Posted by billdan
That's beautiful Greg, how do keep Alnitak under control?, its impossible for me to image the horsehead with my QHY12 due to large Halos from Alnitak.
Firstly the camera - the 16803 has 100,000 electron full well so it can capture some bright stuff without getting overwhelmed. Secondly I used the shadows/highlights too to reduce the highlights and 3rdly the AP Honders scope is really well baffled so I think it helped a lot there too. I actually had a ring reflection artefact on the LRGBs. I took a 2nd run and moved the scene a tad to reduce it. Then when I processed them together this acted like a dither and magically the ring reflection artefact disappeared. I was nicely surprised there. When I first saw the reflections I started wondering how I was going to get rid of them so that worked out accidentally well. So if you get nasty reflections try a large dither (like 10% movement of the frame)
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Originally Posted by beren
hit a six with that one Greg, exceptional congratulations
Wow, thank you.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
A lovely traditional, almost photographic, shot of this area Greg, exactly the sort'a thing the RHA/FLI PL combo were born to do .
Thanks Mike. Yes that combo works really well on these very wide areas and they are an excellent matchup.
Rich pleasant colour, silky smooth, lovely composition.
Thanks Mike. I was worried it was a bit over the top but then it is a very colourful area. I also saw David Malins Horsehead on the Star Gazing show and it was very colourful as well.
Love the detail in the flame and horsehead Greg, I don't think the saturation has been pushed too far though, it should be colourful!
I've come back to it a couple of times so it isn't my mind playing tricks, at first I thought it looked a little like a registration issue in the green channel but a closer look has it looking like the left side of a lot of stars are missing the other channels.
Is this caused by the 50% resolution drop and JPEG compression? Just haven't seen it before.
