Aria in Ara

[Peter Ward]

The SII data on this project is still not quite there...gee it's faint.. even with my RC16 at F6 I suspect it needs about 8 hours to really really make it sing.
(got two so far)

Anyway here is my Narrow Band colour (i.e. SII, Halpha, OIII) version to date.

[JA]

Nothing to see here ..... Just your usual ultra-sharp, ultra contrasty image - Well done Peter

BTW you called it "Aria in Ara", just curious, were you thinking of a specific aria to attribute to it? Nessun Dorma, E Lucevan' le stelle, Recondit Armonia, M'Appari, Casta Diva, Vaga Luna, or .....???? All faves BTW!

Best
JA

[atalas]

Beautiful Peter!love the contrast and the fact the colour is a little different.....an air of mystery I recon.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by JA

Nothing to see here ..... Just your usual ultra-sharp, ultra contrasty image - Well done Peter

BTW you called it "Aria in Ara", just curious, were you thinking of a specific aria to attribute to it? Nessun Dorma, E Lucevan' le stelle, Recondit Armonia, M'Appari, Casta Diva, Vaga Luna, or .....???? All faves BTW!

Best
JA

"E lucevan le stelle" of course!

(Loosely translated "And the stars were shining" )

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by atalas

Beautiful Peter!love the contrast and the fact the colour is a little different.....an air of mystery I recon.

Ta Louie...yep...what to do with NB colour is always a mystery to me

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Sorry Peter, notwithstanding the wonderful lum data, the colours miss the mark for me I'm afraid. Too bi-colour (magenta and cyan). And where's the green? Have you deliberately subdued it? Removing some magenta and bumping up the yellows would be a good start to making the colours richer. (I was able to get a much warmer & richer result with selective colour, curves, saturation and vibrance layers & ten minutes of fiddling ).

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Sorry Peter, notwithstanding the wonderful lum data, the colours miss the mark for me I'm afraid. Too bi-colour (magenta and cyan). And where's the green? Have you deliberately subdued it? Removing some magenta and bumping up the yellows would be a good start to making the colours richer. (I was able to get a much warmer & richer result with selective colour, curves, saturation and vibrance layers & ten minutes of fiddling ).

Yep. I often tell the Greens to bugger off.

Besides...where does it say all NB has to be green and golden hues?

That said I'll look at it again when I've got 8 hours of SII

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

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Besides...where does it say all NB has to be green and golden hues?

Well, the Davies NB aesthetic dictates that there SHALL be 1 dessertspoon of green, 1 tablespoon of gold, 2 tablespoons of blue & cyan, 1 teaspoon of yellow and a pinch of magenta (for authenticity). RGB stars are optional depending on taste.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Well, the Davies NB aesthetic dictates that there SHALL be 1 dessertspoon of green, 1 tablespoon of gold, 2 tablespoons of blue & cyan, 1 teaspoon of yellow and a pinch of magenta (for authenticity). RGB stars are optional depending on taste.

OK..the "MKR" version is now there (same URL) .

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Yum! Repro looks great Peter!

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Repro looks great Peter, much more to my MKR taste as well

[h0ughy (David)]

well what can one say - with all that coloured icing let them eat cake

[Atmos (Colin)]

Nice an sharp an contrasty

[multiweb (Marc)]

I like the final better Peter. Wasn't too keen on the stellar profiles on the previous.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by multiweb

I like the final better Peter. Wasn't too keen on the stellar profiles on the previous.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Nice an sharp an contrasty

Originally Posted by h0ughy

well what can one say - with all that coloured icing let them eat cake

Originally Posted by Andy01

Repro looks great Peter, much more to my MKR taste as well

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Yum! Repro looks great Peter!

Thanks Marc, Marcus, David, Col, Andy....might make it to the MKR final this Sunday after all

P.S. Shortly after I uploaded this...the 4Tb hard disk in my PC holding that image ...and much, much more data.... went bits-up ()...trying to recover what I can now...

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

P.S. Shortly after I uploaded this...the 4Tb hard disk in my PC holding that image ...and much, much more data.... went bits-up ()...trying to recover what I can now...

OUCH!
I am one of those that needs to get more redundancy in my images. Don't keep enough backups. This is a reality for all photographers :/

[RobC (Rob)]

That's a great image Peter. Hard to believe you imaged it from Sydney.

Cheers

Rob

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by RobC

That's a great image Peter. Hard to believe you imaged it from Sydney.

Cheers

Rob

Ta.

NB is virtually immune to light pollution...I often get h-alpha data with a fairly full moon in the sky to boot. Unfortunately NB isn't suited to all subjects.

That said...NGC 6188 is probably one of the best for NB treatment

Originally Posted by Atmos

OUCH!
I am one of those that needs to get more redundancy in my images. Don't keep enough backups. This is a reality for all photographers :/

Fortunately all the .fits files are on a different machine

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Excellent work, Peter. Much subtle detail in the fainter passages.

You've captured lots of SII.

[alpal]

Hi Peter,
that's such a great image.
That Alluna scope is really singing.

cheers
Allan