MartinB

Thanks Sunshine and Simmo. I was pleased with the outcome especially given the very low surface brightness

Nicely processed image, some lovely smoky detail

Despite your problems you have come up with a very pleasing image. Big thumbs up from me

What a busy bit of sky. Great capture. Our galaxy needs a bit of a tidy up!

Very nice detailed images. Good to get the practice in ready for galaxy season. Both pics are a little blue.

A lovely clean image. I've not done any pixel peeping (the work of the devil!) but the stars look good at this image scale. It is a shame the the L-enhance doesn't seem to have let much OIII through.

Dark skies, good quality fast lens, sensitive camera, expert data handling and hey presto!! Wonderful outcome. Well done Olly and Co

Great image Dan. I imagine living in Paris you don't have the best of skies.

Great close up, it feels like I could climb inside it!

A beautiful image Alan

Looks great! As far as guiding goes I still get uncomfortable looking at the guide graph when switching from 380 to 1000mm f/l. Even though I know the fluctuations are simply being amplified!

That's a striking image Paul, well done! re sharpening. Have you thought about Russ Croman's BlurXterminator, it is a fabulous sharpening tool based around deconvolution. I've also really like the traditional unsharp mask in PS. It gives you shed loads of control especially when used with masks.

Lots of fine detail in there and the stars are looking good. To my eye the images look a little overstretched and I wonder if it would look a little better not quite so bright

Yes that's quite a gradient. The 7 minute image is looking good. Have you tried GraXpert. It is a free gradient removal tool which is supposed to be very good.

That's fine image! I'm not familiar with the Benro Polaris. I presume it offers some form of tracking. If so I wonder if you could go longer than 10 seconds. This would allow you to use a lower ISO which would help when it came to processing.

Wonderfully detailed image. The centre has a skull like appearance which I've never noticed before. Like Gorann it would be nice to have a little red in there.

You've got a lot of nice detail and the stars look OK to me. So to some extent it is down to aesthetics and personal preference. I like the amount of reflection nebulosity the SHO rendition has produced but much prefer the red colour of the HOO.

Firstt discovered in 1955 this faint, small nebula in Gemini was orignially thought to be a SN remnant but is now believed to be a planetary nebula. I had never heard of it until recently The data was captured over 4 nights in mixed conditions this month. Scope: SW MN190 Camera: ZWO294 binned x2 Filters: Chroma 5nm OIII and Ha OIII - 103x5mins Ha - 54x5mins Captured using Maxim DL, Combined in PI. Processed in a mix of PI and PS utilising the "Xterminator" suite I've posted a cropped version of the image

The results are in! https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/406549-sgl-2022-challenge-11-reflection-nebulosity/

We had some superb versions of the classic reflection nebulosity targets such as M45 and The Iris, along with some targets not usually associated with reflection nebulosity. Whilst, as judges we try to find objective criteria it is inevitable that our individual aesthetic preferences come into play and this is quite right I think. This does lead to a wide spread of votes. If your image hasn't been chosen it is still probable that it was championed by one or more of our team! 1) Fegato - IC 2177 - The Seagull Nebula As Fegato explains in his supporting comments, this nebula is normally a narrow band imaging target. This, however, is a broadband image and Fegato has homed in on the areas of reflection nebulosity. The end result beautifully reveals the subtle nebulosity. 2) AMcD - NGC1333 A superbly executed image from a Bortle 5 sky. The central brightness gives way to ever fainter blue. It's rather like a lighthouse on a stormy night. I could look at it for hours. 3) Snoani - The Witch Head Nebula A classic reflection target. This image ticks all the boxes, the reflection nebulosity is sympathetically rendered with subtle gradations of intensity. The stars are lovely with slightly soft edges and I love the way Rigel is partly shown. This reveals the source of the reflected light without drawing attention away from the old lady. A big thank you to everyone who posted entries. It is well worth revisiting the thread, there an numerous outstanding images not mentioned here. https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/402064-sgl-2022-challenge-11-reflection-nebulosity/

Superb composition! Well done both.

That is a beauty!

Thanks Olly and Steve I think the tail must have changed its position from our perspective

Thank you Orion25

I use a Jackery Explorer 240. It's expensive but a high quality piece of kit. I use it to run my widefield setup - asiair, zwo asi 2600mc camera, a couple of small dew straps and a SW eq 35M pro mount. It will power everything all night with plenty to spare