M42 and Running Man 27.9 hours - Page 5

PeterEde (Peter) · #81 08-08-2014, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by kkara4

This is one of the most insanely good images I have every seen Paul, and is the very reason that many of us are driven further to work towards getting images as good as this.

Thanks for the inspiration!

It will take me many years to get 50+ hours of data on anything, yet alone on one object!

Exactly. I've been on and off buying a scope for a long time. Then I saw Paul's image. I want to do that or at least attempt it.

Paul Haese · #82 08-08-2014, 10:49 PM

Thanks you Peter, Elio and Ross for the comments.

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Originally Posted by kkara4

This is one of the most insanely good images I have every seen Paul, and is the very reason that many of us are driven further to work towards getting images as good as this.

Thanks for the inspiration!

It will take me many years to get 50+ hours of data on anything, yet alone on one object!

You're more than welcome. I can tell you this that others inspired me and continue to inspire me. We all have our inspirations. I hope to see this level of imaging from many others here over the coming years.

Arkasha (Arthur) · #83 12-08-2014, 09:30 PM

What a good effort, Paul. Well done.

John K · #84 23-08-2014, 01:23 PM

G'day Paul,

Had not offered my congrats on the David M. award for this image - totally awesome stuff and totally deserved after the time you have spent perfecting your craft.

Congrats again and no doubt this will be setting the benchmark for this object for time to come.

John K.

Paul Haese · #85 23-08-2014, 02:44 PM

Thanks John and Arthur.

loc46south (Geoffrey) · #86 25-08-2014, 06:21 PM

Truely a magnificent image - an inspiration.

Cheers
Geof Wingham

Carl · #87 25-08-2014, 09:09 PM

Damn that a fine shot Paul. Brilliant as usual

Carl

Paul Haese · #88 02-09-2014, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by loc46south

Truely a magnificent image - an inspiration.

Cheers
Geof Wingham

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Originally Posted by Carl

Damn that a fine shot Paul. Brilliant as usual

Carl

Thanks gents, that's nice of you to say.

Amaranthus (Barry) · #89 02-09-2014, 03:42 PM

Paul, how did you colour calibrate? Via a standard (objective) method like G2V, or was it more of an artistic (subjective) choice?

Paul Haese · #90 02-09-2014, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Amaranthus

Paul, how did you colour calibrate? Via a standard (objective) method like G2V, or was it more of an artistic (subjective) choice?

I did a calibration via CCDautopilot about a year ago, but ultimately this all boils down to artistic choices. I plan on doing another calibration now that I have changed over to the FSQ. Not that will change things much really.

Amaranthus (Barry) · #91 02-09-2014, 05:15 PM

Thanks. One method I've found useful - at least to get close, it to calibrate against an image of the object that you admire or think looks 'right' - and then flavour to taste. I'm planning on using your image as a reference when I redo Orion at some point this summer!

Paul Haese · #92 02-09-2014, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Amaranthus

Thanks. One method I've found useful - at least to get close, it to calibrate against an image of the object that you admire or think looks 'right' - and then flavour to taste. I'm planning on using your image as a reference when I redo Orion at some point this summer!

Great stuff, thanks.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #93 02-09-2014, 05:36 PM

I'm doing Orion too at the moment but it won't be anything like this. One question though, that rusty brown nebula in the background, what sort of wavelength of light does it produce? Does it have much Ha or is it a more broadband thing? I'm trying to tease it out of my image but it needs some help, probably 100 hours of help lol.

Paul Haese · #94 02-09-2014, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cometcatcher

I'm doing Orion too at the moment but it won't be anything like this. One question though, that rusty brown nebula in the background, what sort of wavelength of light does it produce? Does it have much Ha or is it a more broadband thing? I'm trying to tease it out of my image but it needs some help, probably 100 hours of help lol.

Kevin the dust and gas between the two main nebulae is captured mainly with a Ha filter. My subs were 30 minutes for Ha. I did the luminance at 20 minutes. Once I got enough Ha and Lum data I blended them together. During the processing I used the Ha to add extra depth to the image. From memory I did about three Layers over the data to blend in some parts after I had lightened the Ha data each time.

The dust can be imaged with lum but it is not as detailed.

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #95 02-09-2014, 08:43 PM

Thanks Paul, that helps. I may have to add Ha with my other full spectrum camera as the K-5 is fairly insensitive to it.

Amaranthus (Barry) · #96 02-09-2014, 08:48 PM

Paul, so did you restrict your Ha data to the Lum channel, or did you also blend it with the Red for some colour influence?

Paul Haese · #97 03-09-2014, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Amaranthus

Paul, so did you restrict your Ha data to the Lum channel, or did you also blend it with the Red for some colour influence?

Yes Ha blending on to Lum. The colour was reasonably faint but I just enhanced that a little to get the colour of the dust like that.