Hubble Palette IC1805

[fatwoul]

OK I'm kinda pleased with this one:

x25 600s unbinned HA

x10 1200s unbinned HA

x16 600s unbinned OIII

x16 600s unbinned SII

x10 flats in each filter

x41 1200s darks

Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon-180 ED

Camera: Atik 4000 Mono with EFW2

Mount: NEQ6

Guiding: Atik Titan on Altair 10x60 finderguider

[laser_jock99]

Nice one.

[farunj]

Wow!! That's really nice!!

[Auntystatic]

You should be pleased with it too, its fabulous.

[fatwoul]

Thanks Dani, I really am.

Here's a couple of other renditions (HSO and HOO respectively):

[Gina]

Brilliant!

[fatwoul]

You're too kind, Gina. How you getting on with that reducer? And how's all your SLR cooling stuff going?

Here's the link for my First Light Report on the E-180:

[Tom OD]

Lovely, I do prefer the HOO version myself.

[fatwoul]

Thanks Tom - HOO has, for a long time, been my personal favourite, I think because it seems to present the most "natural" look (whatever that means, with objects so faint that visually they just look like green fuzzy things). This time, however, I thought I'd have a crack at Hubble since I've finally - sort of - got a grasp of how to generate them. And I do appreciate their ability to display the regions of different elements more clearly.

[morimarty]

An excellent set of images and very well processed. The Hoo just wins it for me too!

[alpal]

Lots of great detail there.

The star colours however seem to be all white.

Maybe a star mask would have worked better in the processing?

[Black Knight]

Tis a great looking image, for sure!

[Fay]

Really nice, i like the hubble palette one best

Fay

[fatwoul]

Thank you Martyn, Andy and Fay, I'm glad you like them, although I'm now torn a little between which one to work on. Ah well, it's raining, I guess I can work on them all.

Thanks alpal for your constructive suggestion. Not really tried star masks yet. I've had a look at your Flickr, and since your processing skills clearly do star colours justice, maybe if I put the images onto DropBox you wouldn't mind having a look at them for me? It'd be really helpful.

[alpal]

Thank you Martyn, Andy and Fay, I'm glad you like them, although I'm now torn a little between which one to work on. Ah well, it's raining, I guess I can work on them all.

Thanks alpal for your constructive suggestion. Not really tried star masks yet. I've had a look at your Flickr, and since your processing skills clearly do star colours justice, maybe if I put the images onto DropBox you wouldn't mind having a look at them for me? It'd be really helpful.

Hi there,

Thanks for the compliment.

I now try to get the star colours to appear.

There is a simple tutorial on youtube which will help you.

see link:

I hope that helps?

cheers

Allan

[Gina]

That's very interesting - thank you very much I have a few images absolutely cluttered with stars that could do with that treatment.

[Shibby]

Fantastic! The HOO version is my favourite of the 3.

[alpal]

That's very interesting - thank you very much I have a few images absolutely cluttered with stars that could do with that treatment.

Hi Gina,

It's the only way to go -

otherwise all the stars end up all white - you lose the colour.

cheers

Allan

[Gina]

Yes, and the bloom into great big blobs!

[fatwoul]

Thanks Allan I'll give it a go.

[Zul]

Wow thats stunning!

[Olle_e]

Stunning! I like the Hubble version best nice depth in it.

Olle

[fatwoul]

Thanks both. I'm going to work on the star bloat and lack of star colour this weekend.