Ic434 - Colour Added - Page 2

Jen · #21 23-12-2008, 12:33 AM

WOAH...... now that is a stunning picture thats the best i have seen great work hey if your interested in making a bit of cash i would love to buy a pic like this blown up to put on my empty walls around the house send me a PM if ya interested nice work cheers even the black n white pic is just magic

monoxide · #22 23-12-2008, 12:41 AM

i think the only way you could improve on that is to send your scope into space!

excellent shot, nicely processed too

Octane (Humayun) · #23 23-12-2008, 12:53 AM

Martin,

That is stunning.

Reminds me of the famous image taken by the ESO.

Speechless, really.

Congratulations.

Regards,
Humayun

iceman (Mike) · #24 23-12-2008, 04:47 AM

Stunning! Just stunning.

AlexN · #25 23-12-2008, 06:54 AM

Selling Prints Martin? I'll take one as big as you can print it!!

Thats an incredible image mate.... A breathtaking look at one of the night skies most recognizable gems!

Alex.

Ric · #26 23-12-2008, 03:32 PM

A beautiful image Martin, an absolute ripper.

Cheers

bluescope · #27 23-12-2008, 05:26 PM

Beatiful image Martin.

Martin Pugh · #28 23-12-2008, 05:42 PM

Blimey!

many thanks for the great compliments...glad you liked it so much.

Alex/Jen - I do sell prints (although not too many lately), so I will contact you separately to discuss. As this is cropped somewhat, it should upscale beautifully to A3+.

Thanks for the interest.

cheers
Martin

Peter Ward · #29 23-12-2008, 07:43 PM

The luminance domain of your image is absolutely delightful (so smoooth), but I'm not so sure about the colour.....looks a little magenta to me and lacks saturation (16 hours of data.....)

That said, definitely in the heavy rollers league and an image to be proud of to be sure.

RobF (Rob) · #30 23-12-2008, 08:38 PM

Wow. Many thanks for showing.

Bassnut (Fred) · #31 23-12-2008, 09:16 PM

Martin, I dont mean to be critical, the colour version is exceptional of course, as good as ive seen. But my very ordinary Ha effort clearly shows a strength of verticle gass lanes I have seen elsewhere, perhaps your smoothing reduced them?

http://fredsastro.googlepages.com/Ho...lsite-full.jpg

Martin Pugh · #32 23-12-2008, 11:11 PM

Hi chaps, and thanks for the feedback....most welcome.

Peter you were right....when I stepped back from the monitor, I could clearly see that, so I think I have fixed it.

and Fred....I went right back to the Lum/Ha combination....adjusted it somewhat and reblended that in. I think you will agree that the gas jets are more prominent now.

let me know if you prefer this new version.

cheers
Martin
http://www.martinpughastrophotograph...C434LRGBV3.jpg

AlexN · #33 23-12-2008, 11:53 PM

New color is very pleasing also... perhaps more like other images of the horse head...

Flicking through my dirty great big book of the universe, the hubble image of the horse head is closer in color to your original posting.. Its hard to say which of the two is better... they both have their merits.. although the newer one definitely shows more strength/contrast in the details where as before they were very subtle..

Bassnut (Fred) · #34 24-12-2008, 12:10 AM

Martin. Nice, now its right, you extracted that detail without additional noise, although I suspect you could push it even futher. The overall effect of the image is very pleasing, desite much zooming. Detail whilst smooth is a difficult challenge.

multiweb (Marc) · #35 24-12-2008, 09:02 AM

Vibrant colors on this one. Beautiful picture.

I'm amazed how you got rid of any flare or hint of alnitak.

marc4darkskies (Marcus) · #36 24-12-2008, 09:40 AM

A spectacular shot Martin!! Bringing out a bit more detail in the lanes did the trick for me.

Incredibly smooth too yet still natural looking. Definitely the best rendition I've seen of this object.

Cheers, Marcus

renormalised (Carl) · #37 24-12-2008, 11:00 AM

You know, every time I see a beautiful piccie like that, and see all the stars in the fore and background, I always think...."I wonder how many of those stars have a civilisation on a planet in orbit about them"....wouldn't it be interesting to know

Peter Ward · #38 24-12-2008, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

let me know if you prefer this new version.

cheers
Martin
http://www.martinpughastrophotograph...C434LRGBV3.jpg

Now that's an exceptional HH!

BTW I really like the exquisitely deep and very tight stars...begging the question....did you use the AOL?

Martin Pugh · #39 24-12-2008, 06:19 PM

Many thanks....glad you liked the reworked version.

Peter.....I rarely image these days without the addition of AOL guiding....and yes, it was used throughout.

cheers
Martin

gregbradley · #40 24-12-2008, 08:13 PM

I like the reworked version. You brought out that bit of pink nebula in the blue neb area.

Ha areas are a bit subjective in how they are presented/processed and often can be slightly pinkish/magentaish or salmonish. I would have preferred a slightly more red look to the Ha areas myself but thats just a preference.

When you mix Luminance and Ha into one image perhaps you lose a bit of colour control as opposed to assigning Ha to various blend modes and to the red channel. I mixing Ha and Lum into one image a Rob Gendler technique?

Amazing image with the sharpness and detail, better than anything I got out of my 12.5 RCOS.

Greg.