Thor's Helmet Ha NII OIII 6hrs each

[Paul Haese]

Mike, I like your latest rendition. Though maybe just us some HSLV green to remove the green in the yellow stars. Much more pleasing palette. Detail looks great. I would like a 20" but it might require a big shortening of the pier. Nice light bucket you have there.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Hi Mike,

This is a really nice object. With narrowband of course its eye of beholder, so no right/wrong here.

One of my personal favourites of my own images was of this last year;

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/156159484

There are some nice ridges of reddish nebula in amongst the O111 areas.

Adam Block has a spectacular image of it. Astrodon narrowband tutorial is very good in this regard as it gives you control over the colours as Ha is often mapped to green, green can take over easily.

Greg.

Wow and wow to both of you

Mike that's some awesome big scope (arhem, I want your scope) work, love it ...colour?..meah?? it's better in the second one for sure but bit of star egging but the scale and grandeur more than makes up for it, good job, enjoyable view

Greg...man, your best image with the 17" I recon

Mike

[alpal]

Mike,

Thanks, Allan. Should it clear up again,
I'll try adding much more data and then produce a version with more subtle faint detail.

I couldn't wait that long -
I think we can get a sneak preview now.
I hope you don't mind?
I raised the black point & did a little bit of further processing.
See here in the staging area of Astrobin - not published.

http://www.astrobin.com/149767/0/


cheers
Allan

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Beautiful image Mike, and I much prefer the second version Would you consider a minor cosmetic correction to eliminate two colour (green and purple) artefacts from hot pixels right in the middle of the image?

Cheers, Slawomir!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Mike, I like your latest rendition. Though maybe just us some HSLV green to remove the green in the yellow stars. Much more pleasing palette. Detail looks great. I would like a 20" but it might require a big shortening of the pier. Nice light bucket you have there.

Thanks muchly, Paul. I'm really valuing your advice and will take into account next time round.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow and wow to both of you

Mike that's some awesome big scope (arhem, I want your scope) work, love it ...colour?..meah?? it's better in the second one for sure but bit of star egging but the scale and grandeur more than makes up for it, good job, enjoyable view Mike

Thanks, Mike. Grandeur sounds good! Will add eggy stars to the to-do list.

Originally Posted by alpal

Mike,
I couldn't wait that long -
I think we can get a sneak preview now.
I hope you don't mind?
I raised the black point & did a little bit of further processing.
See here in the staging area of Astrobin - not published.

http://www.astrobin.com/149767/0/
cheers
Allan

Wow, Allan, that worked! Thanks!

Thanks to everyone for the useful pointers.
Best,
Mike

[alpal]

Mike,

Wow, Allan, that worked! Thanks!

Thanks Mike.
With more data & no clipping of the black it could be an APOD.
Even more magic could be created by working with a starless version &
shoving RGB stars back in later.
I can only dream of working with such wonderful data of my own.

cheers
Allan

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by alpal

Mike,
I couldn't wait that long -
I think we can get a sneak preview now.
I hope you don't mind?
I raised the black point & did a little bit of further processing.
See here in the staging area of Astrobin - not published.

http://www.astrobin.com/149767/0/


cheers
Allan

Al you've excelled yourself with that processing result, and now you and Mike have inspired me to add that puppy to my list of targets!
Well done
Andy

[Ross G]

Hi Mike,

What an amazing photo!

Great detail, so sharp and well composed.

A "standout" photo of this object

Ross.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Awesome shot Mike. High-res show superb details with a great image scale. Another one for the future pool room.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Mike, What an amazing photo! Great detail, so sharp and well composed. A "standout" photo of this object. Ross.

Thanks muchly Ross, glad you like it.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Awesome shot Mike. High-res shows superb details with a great image scale. Another one for the future pool room.

Thanks Marc, Yippee!