trifid nebula (M20) *reprocessed*

monoxide · #1 13-09-2007, 12:28 AM

well heres my latest attempt, the wind was gusting and the seeing was poor (again) so i kept exposures short. a bit disappointing really but overall im happy with it even if the nebula doesn't blast your eyes out.
i had to crop it because the coma was pretty ugly but i have a mpcc + uhc-s on the way though so hopefully the next images i post will be much better

*re-processed version*
16x30s iso1600

h0ughy (David) · #2 13-09-2007, 07:21 AM

nice start, look forward to seeing more inthe future

Garyh · #3 13-09-2007, 10:22 AM

Done Well considering the bad conditions you are having there...
keep at it!
cheers

Geoff45 (Geoff) · #4 13-09-2007, 03:04 PM

There's a lot more detail than you think. I took your (low res) pic and did a quick curves and levels in PS. Here is the result. You should be able to get a lot more out of your original.
Geoff

monoxide · #5 13-09-2007, 03:25 PM

heres a re-processed version,
still trying to work it out

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9596/trifidredoqg1.jpg

davewaldo · #6 13-09-2007, 10:29 PM

Very nice work.

Your reprocessed image looks much better! I'm amazed at the detail you are getting for such short exposures!

I can't wait to see what you will get once you start to increase you exposure times.

Congratulations on making such good progress so far.

monoxide · #7 14-09-2007, 12:24 AM

thanks Dave

still wasn't happy so i re-processed it right from raws again, i cropped all the coma out for now as it really wasn't helping.