Running Chicken Nebula - reprocessed 2

[MikeODay]

Reprocessed again - a little more detail in the nebula and 'smaller' stars...

{ previous version: http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/240897-the-running-chicken-nebule/ }

[southernman]

Absolutely breathtaking !

Peter

[MikeODay]

Thank you Peter, much appreciated.

[MikeODay]

Astrobin link: http://www.astrobin.com/full/173470/0/

[swag72]

Love it !!

[MikeODay]

Thank you Sara.

Congratulations on your many wonderful images on your website.

Cheers

Mike

[jsmoraes]

Wow ! From the first version to this proccessing .... it is wine from water ! Very nice colors, details and proccessing.  Great work !

I am working now with my photo. I will never get a similar image. To produce this last version all was done in Pixinsight ?

[MikeODay]

Thank you for your kind words.

Yes pretty much all the heavy processing was done in Pixinsight.  There were only  a few final tweaks in Photoshop.

Cheers

Mike

[MikeODay]

And I think this is the final version from this set of subs ...

( Minor changes really - Just a few local contrast tweaks in Photoshop )

[zakkhogan]

beautiful, amazing, I see this was taken using a unmodded DSLR, can I asked, was this taken in an un-light poluted area..

 absolutely breath taking

[MikeODay]

Thanks Craig.

I guess I might describe it as semi-dark skies. The glow from the greater Sydney area at the bottom of the Blue Mountains dominates the eastern sky and around me are lights from the small communities up in the mountains. But directly above, a hemisphere upto about 20 to 30 deg from Zenith, is fairly dark (subject to moisture in the air of course).