Continuing on with a series of images I took with this little beauty TEC110 fluorite and a Vixen guide scope on a PMX. Here is a favourite - the Lagoon - Trifid area widefield.
This one is Ha O111 red green and blue and about 4 hours or so. Good seeing, good conditions.
This was taken after completing a run on my Vela mosaic and Vela had set so it was around 1am when it started and cold - yawn!
I love these images Greg; wide enough scale to show multiple objects and their context to each other, yet enough scale to still show good detail within the objects themselves. My only suggestion might be that the Trifid reflection neb and some of the brighter stars appear a bit cyan.
Very nice Greg....hard to go past the Sag Trio this time of year.
Thanks Louie. I agree its a fabulous target.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Great colours in M8 Greg. Noice.
Thanks Marx. High praise indeed from the King of M8!
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Originally Posted by LewisM
Love it.
Cheers Lewis.
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I love these images Greg; wide enough scale to show multiple objects and their context to each other, yet enough scale to still show good detail within the objects themselves. My only suggestion might be that the Trifid reflection neb and some of the brighter stars appear a bit cyan.
Thanks for that David. I saw that teal green around the Trifid and put it down to the O111 showing up some, well O111, which I processed to part blue and part green (O111 is teal) to get the teal green. I missed the cyan in the stars except that bright one - again I put it down to the O111 as green doing that. I have corrected this and think it turned out better so that was a nice catch - cheers. It also made the O111 haze around M8 more of a pleasing pale blue which I love to be able to capture on M8 shots and it can be elusive being very faint. This is what I am really liking about this litte TEC110 fluorite. It picks this stuff up. Fluorite, even today, still holds a small edge over ED glass and I would always choose a fluorite lens over an ED one if I had the choice.
You mean M8 stalker. I leave the crown to the other princesses around here.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Nice wide view of the "foot" and friends, Greg!
Thanks Rick. I've imaged this one several times but I like this version the best.
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Originally Posted by astronobob
Magic composition, and amaizing to see images of this calibur Greg
Way coool , ,
Cheers Bob. Its a fabulous target.
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Originally Posted by marco
Really nice one Greg, I like the overall color rendition!
Clear skies
Marco
I'm loving the colour I am getting from this little TEC fluorite lens. Its what I hoped it would do when I got it. I was a bit nervous as I was selling a perfectly good and functioning FSQ106ED to get it. The FSQ ED is a great scope in all ways except the change from fluorite to ED glass. It seemed to lose some colour rendition the earlier FSQ106N (I've had both) had with its dual fluorite lenses. In the camera world there is often talk of a lens ability to render colour but rarely in telescope world. But there is a difference between scopes. If this same shot were done with an FSQ 106ED I would be able to pick it immediately. Not to pick on the FSQ106ED as its one of the world's great scopes.
Thanks for that David. I saw that teal green around the Trifid and put it down to the O111 showing up some, well O111, which I processed to part blue and part green (O111 is teal) to get the teal green. I missed the cyan in the stars except that bright one - again I put it down to the O111 as green doing that. I have corrected this and think it turned out better so that was a nice catch - cheers. It also made the O111 haze around M8 more of a pleasing pale blue which I love to be able to capture on M8 shots and it can be elusive being very faint. This is what I am really liking about this litte TEC110 fluorite. It picks this stuff up. Fluorite, even today, still holds a small edge over ED glass and I would always choose a fluorite lens over an ED one if I had the choice.
Yeah that looks really good now Greg. Actually it brings up an interesting point when mixing narrowband with RGB as to when "false" colour can take over from the "natural" hues we expect. I guess though that the premise is that the narrowband is used to augment the definition in the RGB base - or is this a grey area
Yeah that looks really good now Greg. Actually it brings up an interesting point when mixing narrowband with RGB as to when "false" colour can take over from the "natural" hues we expect. I guess though that the premise is that the narrowband is used to augment the definition in the RGB base - or is this a grey area
Thanks David. I personally would prefer to augment. If a star looks green I think its crossed a line.
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Originally Posted by troypiggo
Lovely field and really like the colours.
Cheers Troy.
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Wonderful vista there Greg. A pleasure to explore.
I leave the crown to the other princesses around here. 
