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[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice close up Greg. Good colors.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Nice one Greg, but a lot of the stars are reddish. Is this real because they are obscured by dust, or should the colour be corrected? Dunno.
Geoff

[Regulus (Trevor)]

This is certainly a very nice Nebula Greg, and it's a lovely photo of it.
Nice palette choice for this subject too.
Paul's suggestion on brightness makes me wonder though what it might look like (I have had a play with the full res version in Paintshop Pro and there is certainly room there to bring out a bit more detail without loosing the high-lights to much).
It's not at all necessary because this is a nice photo that puts all the attention on the 'wells of light', but I am curious to see what you would do with the original data to lighten it up :-)
Lovely photo mate.
Trev

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by E_ri_k

Very nice Greg, lovely blue colour

Erik

Thanks Eric. Definitely the nicest part. I like the little subtle ribbon of pink as well.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Some nice colours and detail there Greg. Maybe a little dark though.

To get brighter I would need more exposure time. I may just do that.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice one Greg, but a lot of the stars are reddish. Is this real because they are obscured by dust, or should the colour be corrected? Dunno.
Geoff

The stars are obscured by dust hence the red. Its not an artifact.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Nice close up Greg. Good colors.

Cheers Marc. I'm happy with it except it could do with more time which I was always planning.

Greg.

[gregbradley]

I fixed the stars, brightened it a tad and corrected more of the remaining noise. Not too bad now. I'll look to add some more data if the clouds clear. I almost got some last night but the clouds - sneakily- waited until I clicked start on the imaging run before they rushed in!

Greg.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Hi Greg, hmmm - too much NR - sorry but to me it looks soft & mushy now

'Tis a difficult target, I was having a crack myself last new moon under dark skies but I had a recurrence of the flare issue I originally experienced a year ago on the same thing. Puts me off LRGB imaging!

Regardless it seems to want bucket loads of data to reduce the noise

[gregbradley]

Thanks Andy.

I changed the image back to the original version. I guess there is no substitute for long enough exposure. Back to adding more data next clear no moon nights.

I've done this object before with a TEC180 and Proline 16803:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/108830707/large

Not as much detail in the reflection nebs but good detail on the dust and some surrounding Ha areas. I may try a blend of these and see if that brings up the image.


Greg.

[PRejto (Peter)]

Love the blue from the Trius and the FOV & stars from the TEC180. I think I'll give it a go myself if the weather ever allows for another image to be taken!

Peter

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by PRejto

Love the blue from the Trius and the FOV & stars from the TEC180. I think I'll give it a go myself if the weather ever allows for another image to be taken!

Peter

Thanks Peter. Yes I think they could be a good combo if I can get them to blend.

By the way I see Astronomik are selling 3 different types of luminance filters 2 of which are designed to cut down blue halos from imperfect correction from correctors etc. Could be what you were looking for?

Greg.