The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulas

[MLParkinson (Murray)]

The Lagoon & Trifid Nebulas. Televue 85 mm Refractor @ f/5.6 (0.8x corrector), NEQ Pro Mount, QSI683wsg camera (no bining), Astronomic H alpha (18 x 12 mins), OIII (16 x 10 mins) and Blue filters (17 x 8 mins). Capture and processing with Nebulosity, PHD Guide, Noiseware, Photoshop and GIMP. Location: Heathcote, Sydney. Higher resolution version:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlparki...n/photostream/

[pluto (Hugh)]

Beautiful!!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Unusual color palette for sure but having said that the details and star field are outstanding. Well done.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Lovely image

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

I've looked at this a few times before passing comment.

At first I though wha tha??

Then as I usually do, I gave it some time, came back to it a few times and had a good look aaaaand low and behold it grew on me

I really like how the Trifid looks, the yellow Lagoon is a bit so-so but all up it is quite a striking image and good use of light pollution suppression NB filters .

Well done

Mike

[MLParkinson (Murray)]

At a deeper philosophical level, there is of course no such thing as "true" colour.

[dvj (John)]

Such a wonderful image.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by MLParkinson

At a deeper philosophical level, there is of course no such thing as "true" colour.

Yes, colour is "in the eye of the beholder" I agree

[stardust steve (Steve)]

i like it Murray

[MLParkinson (Murray)]

Thanks for your kind words Steve. I think that social media is a wonderful thing. Most people are so polite.

[LewisM]

Reminds me of the glowing adamantine steel doors as the Krell monster attacked in Forbidden planet...

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Hmm, very special colours. Details are great!! The yellow in lagoon nebula makes me a little dizzy..

[MLParkinson (Murray)]

The central area of the Lagoon Nebula has intense blue-green emission of OIII atoms, and there is also a lot of broad band blue light. The "yellow" (I like to think "gold") arises because I have mapped the strong blue-green of OIII emission to the green channel so I can use the blue channel for broad band blue light. Superimpose these colours on a fainter background of red H alpha and the result is gold. I guess it is all a matter of one’s own sense of beauty ... the HST colour palette is very fashionable even though it does not map the emissions to "true colour" (the colour most people would see if they could see saturated colour in nebulas).

[astronobob (Bob)]

Them colours are nice, yep, reminds me of Oxide coloured Cobble Stones, An eyecatching result Yep, top stuff ! !

[Ross G]

A nice photo Murray.

Great detail.


Ross.