More prawns on the barbie - now with wider field composite
Realising I would probably only have a single night before the next full moon, I managed to escape from our visiting guests and got a leave pass to take advantage of the perfect conditions (other than the Moon) on Sunday night
No wind and perfectly clear and steady seeing - perfect for narrowband imaging
I got all the data in one night and tried hard to show all three emission lines in the processing and yes, yes, I like just a little magenta left in the stars of NB images
Here is the 100% resolution Full Frame (Just for Marcus) to trawl around:
Fan-bludee-tastic!!! Full res, full frame! Yippee!!! Awesome!!!
The image is OK too Smooth and a lovely balance of colour! Surprised you haven't thrown a bit more contrast at it though (?) 10 min subs?
<sigh> I can only dream of getting all data in one night! I'm working on my very first NB image right now - 10 hours and counting and probably need 10 more.
Spectacular job with the OIII and SII, Mike. A lovely image. And crispy sharp detail.
Will go well with lime, coriander, and shredded coconut.
Stop it! you're making me hungry
Mike
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Fan-bludee-tastic!!! Full res, full frame! Yippee!!! Awesome!!!
The image is OK too Smooth and a lovely balance of colour! Surprised you haven't thrown a bit more contrast at it though (?) 10 min subs?
<sigh> I can only dream of getting all data in one night! I'm working on my very first NB image right now - 10 hours and counting and probably need 10 more.
Cheers Marcus This image just seemed to need to be displayed at full res, just looked better, probably because it is so subtle and tenuous? That's the benefit if 12" and F3.8 mate (yes 10min subs), single night multi filter compositions are indeed achievable. The best renditions I have seen of this nebula tend to be the more subtle ones, those that show the transparency of the nebulosity, so I guess I was shooting for that look. I did try applying more contrast and high pass filtering but I didn't like the look...I'll have another look tonight though, thanks for the feedback
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Looks fantastic Mike! I'll have to keep this as a colour reference when I redo mine
I think we both want much larger FOVs!
Cheers Col, hey my FOV is great for many objects, just this one was pushing the ideal framing a bit, yours is perfect for this neb I recon. Glad you like the colours, while a small number of emission nebs have almost none of one of the emissions present, to me 3 filter NB images need to show three distinct colours within in the blend, if they are there .
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Originally Posted by TR
Very nice Mike. I dream of getting some nice long imaging nights. Great looking colours in there. Nice and smooth and definitely not over the top
Terry
Thanks Tezza ...your time will come, very soon....
Mike
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Nice one Mike. FOV a bit tight. Time to get the dust off the Proline? Well framed though.
I like the colour you've achieved. Golden tones and nice blues I think are the new narrowband hip colour scheme all the trendies are using.
These long winter nights are an astrophotograhers dream, its nearly 12 hours of darkness at the moment.
As it happened I also imaged this in less than one night last night. Yet to see if it needs more data or not. The downloads looked good and I also had spectacular seeing at my dark site.
Nice one Mike. FOV a bit tight. Time to get the dust off the Proline? Well framed though.
Aaaah yes, the ProLine ..still on track for an FSQ by years end to go on that Thing is I just love the resolution I get with the H694 on the AG12, a noticable improvement over the ProLine and with the integrated OAG, no need to worry about diff flex and the small chip means any residual image plane tilt isn't a problem..hence why I have had the little blighter on for almost three years now
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I like the colour you've achieved. Golden tones and nice blues I think are the new narrowband hip colour scheme all the trendies are using.
Oh yeah baby I'm hip alright
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These long winter nights are an astrophotograhers dream, its nearly 12 hours of darkness at the moment.
As it happened I also imaged this in less than one night last night. Yet to see if it needs more data or not. The downloads looked good and I also had spectacular seeing at my dark site.
Greg.
What did you have with you at your dark site..?
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Originally Posted by RickS
Excellent rainbow prawnage, Mike
Cheers Rick, rainbow, yes, that's what it looks like...although M&T got the flavours spot on
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Originally Posted by rustigsmed
great prawn Mike.
great colour as well.
cheers
Thanks Russ
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Originally Posted by codemonkey
That's a cracker, Mike... lovely and smooth with beautiful colour and brilliant contrast. Gotta be happy with that!
Cheers Lee, I got my imaging fix at least, was a crisp cold Canberra night with no wind and a mild frost...aaah, that's the life ...got a bit cold by 4am though
Nice one again Mike. Great colour and detail. I would think about turning up the local contrast just a bit to highlight those lower contrast regions just a bit more but of course narrowband is all personal preference.
- perfect for narrowband imaging 
Awesome!!! 
Smooth and a lovely balance of colour! Surprised you haven't thrown a bit more contrast at it though (?) 10 min subs?
..still on track for an FSQ by years end to go on that 
...got a bit cold by 4am though 
