simmo39

Yep that's a keeper, stunning shot. 

Nice Nag that.

Great image! struggling to see the dog though . lol

V nice, one of the clearer images of M1 that I have seen.

V nice, I'm working on this target at the moment. Hope it comes out as good as yours.

Wow, what a stunning image!

Nice!

Brilliant and the green does work!

That looks amazing!

lovely image!

That looks so good!

Cool image, very moody.

V nice!

2 hours ago, Ceph said:

Hi Simmo
In my point of view, both pictures are suffering from too much green.
The stars on the HOO is too green and on the yellow version both stars and background is too green.
On the yellow version you can also change the colors on the background, decrease the colors a little on the blue and increase a little on the red.
If you are using Pixinsight and have Starnet2 you can extract the stars from the yellow version and put them on the HOO version instead I think this will give you nicer stars.

I am no expert but I did a quick color adjusment on the false SHO

Hi and thanks for the tips, Ill give it a try later and see what I get. I seem to have a lot of comments about green on a lot of my posts I think my computer screen colours may be slightly off.

Thats brilliant!, Makes my 13 hour effort look so weak. I may have to add to mine now but not this season.

V nice, I had always said the Jellyfish was much larger than the monkey head.

Great come back!

A suprising clear night last night ( fog was forecast ) and I was going to add to my Spaghetti Neb image but I thought I need a break and after a quick search for a brightish target I went for the Monkey head. This nebula I did many years ago and was one of the first targets I did. This is 49 x 240s subs taken with my ASI 2600mc and Optolong Ex through my Askar 400.

I did one as a straight HOO crop and another as a false SHO image. I think the HOO is a little better to look at.

Hints tips and CC welcome

Wow, a lovely image. 

Like a good wide field and that's a great image.

V nice!

On 20/01/2023 at 11:15, Lee_P said:

Brilliant! Congratulations!

Thanks, would not call it brilliant, but Im pleased I got it.

36 minutes ago, geeklee said:

Not at all!  Both are very good images and show excellent, clean structure.  You've done extremely well with the data you have. 

From experience I know how frustrating Sh2-240 can be to get "just right" in our own eyes.  If you don't get a chance to get more data, you should be very pleased with this one.

You are being kind, thank you. Funny how some targets just dont want to play, I have a few that never seem to come out the way I like no matter what I throw at them.

12 minutes ago, geeklee said:

It's tricky isn't it! 

The latest version lost a little of that super OIII from the structure that the top one had - sorry!  Maybe a blend of the two?

 It's nice to see others having the same challenges with this one 😅

Hi, when I looked at the second version this morning I could see loads wrong with it. To much looking in one go i think. I will have another go with the data later on but I think it needs more subs to get the best out of it. Was going to try and get more data tonight but life is getting in the way. hopefully tomorrow I will be out to play.

Stunning!