First Rosette of the season?

[naskies (Dave)]

Yep, the contrast boost did the trick! I think this may well one of the best renditions of the Rosette that I've seen on IIS

[bartman (Bart)]

Wicked Rick!!!!!
Gonna try this season to capture myself....
Thanks
Bartman

[Paul Haese]

Very nice image Rick. I would continue with the Ha and OIII collection. I am planning on doing this myself this year to add to what I did last year. Mikes image from last year had narrow band gave a new look to the object. I would use that as a reference image.

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Have to add my accolades. What a stunning image! Congratulations Rick.

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Much better! Now looks superb.

Steve

Thanks for the suggestion, Steve!

Originally Posted by adman

That new version is the business rick! Just spectacular!

Adam

Thank you, Adam.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great start to the 2012/13 Rosette show Rick

Solid result

Mike

Thanks, Mike. Will have to give it a go with the AG12 some time too.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Yeah there it is. Superb.

I personally wouldn't add Ha to it - it'll only spoil your lovely neb colours and stars. Its perfect as-is. Nice magenta H beta areas, nice reddish pink Ha colour yet beautiful star colours and a nice dark background.

Ha Rosettes are usually way too red and most unattractive as a result.

I am still surprised you got so much of the Ha colours without shooting Ha. Must've been nice dark skies. You've got a good rock n roll setup now. Its all working beautifully - don't change anything! Lock it all down. Its easy to change something now and it gets worse.

Greg.

Thanks, Greg! Locking things down will be difficult. I have a new camera that I'm itching to try I bought the Apogee U16M with D09 body that was listed here a couple of months back. It's back in California hopefully having a sensor transplant...

Originally Posted by naskies

Yep, the contrast boost did the trick! I think this may well one of the best renditions of the Rosette that I've seen on IIS

Thanks, Dave.

Originally Posted by bartman

Wicked Rick!!!!!
Gonna try this season to capture myself....
Thanks
Bartman

Good luck with it, Bart.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Very nice image Rick. I would continue with the Ha and OIII collection. I am planning on doing this myself this year to add to what I did last year. Mikes image from last year had narrow band gave a new look to the object. I would use that as a reference image.

Thanks, Paul. I've seen a few very nice Rosette narrowband/RGB images including Mike's and I'm keen to have a try. I'm sure I'll learn a few things on the way even if I don't get a better result than this one.

Originally Posted by Rigel003

Have to add my accolades. What a stunning image! Congratulations Rick.

Thanks, Graeme!

[iceman (Mike)]

Wonderful image - the newest version is great.
You should update the image in the first post too.

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Wonderful image - the newest version is great.
You should update the image in the first post too.

Thanks, Mike. I have updated the attached image in the first post.

[issdaol (Phil)]

Brilliant !!. Images like this really inspire people to get into AP

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks, Phil!