This is another hybrid image composed using two separate data sets from two different cameras - one wide field (16803) the other narrow field (H694) and in HaOIIIRGB. Same scope and mount but different quality sky conditions. The full field was collected in light polluted Newcastle with crap seeing while the Swan detail was collected in Canberra with much better seeing and a dark sky.
Strong colour I know and there's some lipstick again ...but meah that's hydrogen for you , guess I love colour (and lipstick)
Cheers Marcus, Dave and Rick...Over recent years I have amassed a number of duplicate images of several objects, taken with different imaging systems with different fields of view, so it is fun combining them to get the best of each system in the one image
Very clear and sharp Mike. To me it's seems just a bit too uniformly magenta though. Having said that, correct colour balance isn't my strong point so I could be talking total rubbish.
Steve, this image was composed with a relatively small amount of RGB enhanced with Ha and OIII, it is therefore probably best described as more of a simulation if you like, of an LRGB and processed to closely match what an LRGB should look like....so, you may well be right but hopefully at least the essence of the image is reasonably accurate and remember these nebs are indeed meant to be magenta (mostly red Ha + some blue Hb) in most cases...unless plenty of dust is in the road of course then they look deeper red/orange...that's the theory anyway
I think you've found a great way to sustain your enthusiasm for the hobby. Or.... your addicted to processing in which case this type of thing is probably bad for your health.
Very nice Mike. I hope one day to image this object. So hard from my location.
All the best,
Leo
I'm sure you will manage it and do a fabulous job too
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Nice combo Mike, lovely detail in the swan!
I think you've found a great way to sustain your enthusiasm for the hobby. Or.... your addicted to processing in which case this type of thing is probably bad for your health.
I'll go with sustained enthusiasm.
Yep! I recon you're right
Way I see it, if there's stuff to play with and data to combine...why not I love creating new works, it is art for me, where an artist might have a room with trestles and easels, canvases in different stages of completion, some that are being painted over, along with weird and wonderful pieces as well as some really great pieces, all over the place ...that is how I view my hard drive I am not a perfectionist, the beauty of an image is not in the brand or cost of the equipment that took it and how perfectly it points, nor is it in how little noise there is or whether it was 1000hrs of exposure or not but rather how the image works as a whole, the colours, the framing so many things, not the least of which is the subject and what it actually is, too often the quest for processing perfection overlooks what it is we have actually captured...and lastly image capture and processing should be fun, lots of fun when it stops being fun and becomes a competition or a way of identifying yourself as great...well, I recon it's gone too far.
mmmmm... Looks like too much red at first sight, but it kinda grows on you the more you look at it. The star colours are nicely balanced and that says to me that colour in the nebulosity is about right. The detail in the nebulosity is very good. Well done yet again.
Geoff
...but meah that's hydrogen for you 
, guess I love colour (and lipstick) 
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your addicted to processing in which case this type of thing is probably bad for your health. 
...that is how I view my hard drive 
I am not a perfectionist, the beauty of an image is not in the brand or cost of the equipment that took it and how perfectly it points, nor is it in how little noise there is or whether it was 1000hrs of exposure or not but rather how the image works as a whole, the colours, the framing so many things, not the least of which is the subject and what it actually is, too often the quest for processing perfection overlooks what it is we have actually captured...and lastly image capture and processing should be fun, lots of fun 
