The Snake Nebula repro'd now golden

[gregbradley]

I took this one a little while ago. I reprocessed it from the colour combine on up in order to get that golden baackground.
TEC180 and Microline 8300 (the small pixels match with the APO quite well).

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/134683381

Greg.

[Sarge (Rod)]

Nice one Greg. Looks great.

Rod

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

That's a nice close-up indeed. And great star colours as well!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Sarge

Nice one Greg. Looks great.

Rod

Thanks Rod. I appreciate it.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

That's a nice close-up indeed. And great star colours as well!

Looking at it now the star colours look fine but I had the idea they were supposed to be more golden. I think these are the correct colours.

Greg.

[RB (Andrew)]

Very nice work Greg, but I was under the impression that they should be more golden.
On my monitor there seems to be a slight blue colour cast.

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by RB

Very nice work Greg, but I was under the impression that they should be more golden.
On my monitor there seems to be a slight blue colour cast.

unfortunately i do agree with ^^^^^ him

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by RB

Very nice work Greg, but I was under the impression that they should be more golden.
On my monitor there seems to be a slight blue colour cast.

You're right Andrew. I worked with the data again and it really wanted to look bluish. So I went back to the original data and did a fresh colour combine and the colours looked a lot better. I then processed it again and yes the golden background was there.

Thanks for that. It was one of those troublesome images. CCDstack I find can give unreliable colour combines. I'll have to start looking at other programs for that.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

unfortunately i do agree with ^^^^^ him

Thanks Houghy the repro got the gold and I am happy about that now.

Greg.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Your right Andrew. I worked with the data again and it really wanted to look bluish. So I went back to the original data and did a fresh colour combine and the colours looked a lot better. I then processed it again and yes the golden background was there.

Thanks for that.

Greg.

you beeuteey !!!

Much better Greg.

[Lester]

Wonderful view Greg, thanks.

[sjastro]

Very nice Greg.

Steven

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by RB

you beeuteey !!!

Much better Greg.

Thanks Andrew.

Originally Posted by Lester

Wonderful view Greg, thanks.

Thanks Lester.

Originally Posted by sjastro

Very nice Greg.

Steven

Cheers Steven.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

I think you nailed it this time Greg. That's definitely the way it should look. I guess getting the colour right can be a bit of a lottery when you have fairly short exposures.

Cheers

Steve

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

I think you nailed it this time Greg. That's definitely the way it should look. I guess getting the colour right can be a bit of a lottery when you have fairly short exposures.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve. I occassionally find CCDstack gives me an odd colour combine. I keeps you on your toes. What colour combine software are you using?

Greg.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Thanks Steve. I occassionally find CCDstack gives me an odd colour combine. I keeps you on your toes. What colour combine software are you using?

Greg.

Basically anything that's gives me a decent looking result: Maxim, CCDStack and quite often I just do the combines directly within photoshop.

[Ross G]

A very nice closeup Greg.


Thanks.

Ross.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Ross G

A very nice closeup Greg.


Thanks.

Ross.

Thanks Ross.

I am planning to do several images with my refractors and the 8300 chip. I want to see how well the small pixels work with some of my refractors. I have used it a lot on the TEC180 but not the other 2 fast refractors I have.

I think it will be a good match and the 8300 chipped camera will really show its best capabilities.

Greg.