Twice Cooked Lobster (now updated, finished at last!)

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

It is looking considerably better, there is a lot of detail in the core there that's for sure.

Thanks Colin

Originally Posted by Slawomir

I agree with Colin, the new version looks much better

Cheers Slaw - Final version below - I don't think I can improve it any further!

Thanks everyone, for your patience and input - it's been in interesting journey but well worth it

http://www.astrobin.com/full/169902/E/?real=&mod=

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

I think the final revision looks awesome!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nailed it! Repro's right on the money, Andy. Superb.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

I think the final revision looks awesome!

Thanks Slaw, appreciate your help and input too

Originally Posted by multiweb

Nailed it! Repro's right on the money, Andy. Superb.

Cheers Marc and thx for your help with this one, I've learned a great deal from this reprocessing exercise, now it's time to move on to something new

[gregbradley]

That looks very good. You got a tremendous amount of detail out of this nebula which traditionally in the visible spectrum, is usually a very boring nebula.

Greg.

[plantnerd (Luis)]

Spectacular and very hubble like

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That looks very good. You got a tremendous amount of detail out of this nebula which traditionally in the visible spectrum, is usually a very boring nebula.

Greg.

Thanks Greg -I learned a lot of useful processing procedures revisiting this data so hopefully some of those will stick in my future imaging workflow. Thx for your input, glad you like it now

Originally Posted by plantnerd

Spectacular and very hubble like

Thanks very much, took a while but perservence seems to have paid off, cheers!

[Paul Haese]

I obviously like the colour palette employed. After all I used a similar palette when I did imaged this object a year or so ago.

You might want to crop the left hand side as there is a stacking artefact running down the panel.

The latest version is still quite noisy and probably needs more integration time to shine or perhaps do a reveal mask to control the noise. I found this particular object to be very tough with regard to noise and it took a lot of integration time to get it to a manageable level and even then I felt as though I could do a lot more to clean it right up. Always a balancing act about perfectionism and rationality when it comes to how much integration time should be collected.

Overall a good image in my opinion, but could do with a bit more.