Standard Messier 8

[Peter Ward]

Lord knows.... the world doesn't really need another vanilla M8!

... but as I already had the H-alpha data, I figured it needed a little colour.
Common subject matter, but brushed up OK?

The link is here

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Lord knows.... the world doesn't really need another vanilla M8!

Marc Aragnou will love you for it

Nice result

Mike

[allan gould]

Nice one Peter - really great detail and composition.

[Craig_L]

Wow! With that pin sharp starfield to frame it, a wonderful shot.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by Craig_L

Wow! With that pin sharp starfield to frame it, a wonderful shot.

It's OK, but needs another four (mosaic) fames to really get going.

Originally Posted by allan gould

Nice one Peter - really great detail and composition.

Ta, as above.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Marc Aragnou will love you for it

Nice result

Mike

Thanks Mike....its OK, but not one I'd put into CWAS....which so far has zero-candidates from yours truly.

[Peter Ward]

Decided not to force the image processing.... and simply hit it with a bigger hammer this afternoon.

Waddyareckon....too much?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Marc Aragnou will love you for it

Nice result

Mike

What's this DSO? I'm not familiar with it.
Top shot as per usual Peter. Great details.

[RobF (Rob)]

Thanks for showing - interesting to see how a pro handles the colours which I find challenging in this bright object.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

I love that you've managed to include the cluster at bottom left. Beautiful, subtle processing. That's a killer image.

Thanks for posting,
Cam

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Peter.

So much detail and so, so sharp!

Ross.

[Paul Haese]

Nice vibrancy, great detail but the magenta is maybe just a little too white clipped? Well it looks that way. Only in some areas though. I saw the first version and thought that was quite nice.

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Preferred the original version. It's lost some of it's subtlety. Still a great shot.

Cheers,
Cam

[Peter Ward]

Been away for a bit....... uploaded a more high key version that preserved the highlights a tad better... Thanks for the feedback guys

[Paul Haese]

Yeah like that one Peter.

[gregbradley]

Very nice result. But hey Peter - 60 30 30 30? 2 1/2 hours - where's your 15-20 hour masterpiece??

Greg.

[naskies (Dave)]

Very nice - looks 3D! I assume I'm looking at the latest version...? (Getting confused with the thread trail.)