M20 - Now in Colour

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

I can't believe the clear nights I've had here!! It's a long time since I've been able to image without being dogged by cloud!

The seeing was crappy but it didn't matter - I only needed to the colour. Hope you like it!

Full Res:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/150932230/original

Cheers, Marcus

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Superb Marcus!

Great contrast and colour.
I like the way you processed the inner regions of the nebula. So much detail I have not seen before.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely image, Marcus

[PRejto (Peter)]

Super image!!! Bravo

Peter

[RickS (Rick)]

Lots of subtle details. Nice work, Marcus!

[BlackWidow (Mardy)]

Wow Marcus, raise the bar on us. Very nice detail and colour. I have a lot of work to do and a lot more learning.

Great Job

[cybereye (Mario)]

Marcus,

Lovely work! It looks like I need to go back and revisit mine...

Cheers,
Mario

[Peter Ward]

Yep. Like your work

[batema (Mark)]

Beautiful image. I love it.

Mark

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Great result Marcus, lovely colours and plenty of detail, an excellent Trifid

Mike
Ps seeing here is crappy at the moment too

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Superb Marcus!

Great contrast and colour.
I like the way you processed the inner regions of the nebula. So much detail I have not seen before.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin. I always try to find ways of being different. Hard to do with a classic like the Trifid though. I wanted folks to see the nuance in the neb that only a few others have shown.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Lovely image, Marcus

Cheers Larry.

Originally Posted by PRejto

Super image!!! Bravo

Peter

Glad you liked it Peter!

Originally Posted by RickS

Lots of subtle details. Nice work, Marcus!

Thanks Rick! Yes, I always try, with varying degrees of success, to bring out subtlety. Helps to have a night of good seeing though!

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

Wow Marcus, raise the bar on us. Very nice detail and colour. I have a lot of work to do and a lot more learning.

Great Job

You're too kind Martin. Thanks!

Originally Posted by cybereye

Marcus,

Lovely work! It looks like I need to go back and revisit mine...

Cheers,
Mario

Thanks Mario! Layer masking is your friend!

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Yep. Like your work

Thanks Peter.

Originally Posted by batema

Beautiful image. I love it.

Mark

Cheers Mark.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great result Marcus, lovely colours and plenty of detail, an excellent Trifid

Mike
Ps seeing here is crappy at the moment too

Thanks Mike! Last night was a mixed bag for me too but it got good after about 23:00 (imaging the wolf)

[Paul Haese]

Nice Marcus. I really like the saturation and the colour in general. Great detail too. Star colours are really nice too. I would add another 15 hours or so, just to kill off the tiny amount of noise there though. Sorry I have turned into a mega data freak now.

Excellent field of view and overall a really lovely image.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Another beauty. You're on a roll.

[Elio]

simply stunning
a great work, and a lovely setup

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Another beauty Marcus. You've even got the slightly greener reflection nebulosity correct. Many images have it too blue.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

A beautiful result Marcus. Outstanding detail.

Greg.

[Ross G]

Beautiful Marcus.....a perfect photo!

Ross.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice Marcus. I really like the saturation and the colour in general. Great detail too. Star colours are really nice too. I would add another 15 hours or so, just to kill off the tiny amount of noise there though. Sorry I have turned into a mega data freak now.

Excellent field of view and overall a really lovely image.

Hehe ... thanks Paul. If only I had enough clear sky, time and patience to gather megadata. One day perhaps. And of course, I deliberately left a tiny amount of noise in there to make it look "real"

Originally Posted by multiweb

Another beauty. You're on a roll.

Thanks Marc. I'm only on a roll on clear moonless weekend nights though!

Originally Posted by Elio

simply stunning
a great work, and a lovely setup

Thanks Elio!

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Another beauty Marcus. You've even got the slightly greener reflection nebulosity correct. Many images have it too blue.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve! Yes, I agree about the blue and I took care to control myself with saturation. Going fluro on a subject like this would be sacreligious IMO!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A beautiful result Marcus. Outstanding detail.

Greg.

Thanks Greg

Originally Posted by Ross G

Beautiful Marcus.....a perfect photo!

Ross.

Thankyou Ross! Not sure about "perfect" though mate - that leaves me no place to go. I'd settle for nearly perfect though!

[Shiraz (Ray)]

that is a ripper of an image Marcus - smooth and detailed. regards ray

[dvj (John)]

One of the best refractor M20 shots I've seen in 30 years of imaging.