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Really nice image of a less popular subject, I like your processing Thank you for sharing Bryan

Hi Simon Really nice work! It’s difficult to flick from your old image to your new version for comparison whilst viewing it in my thread but I can see a lot of work has gone into colour control, sharpening details and star reduction! I’m impressed! I did like the dynamics of your first version as you had quite a lot of data, maybe you could try a combination of the images? Just a Suggestion? It’s all practice! Thank you so much for sharing your hard work cheers Bryan

Simply beautiful! You must be more than happy with the outcome 😊 Thanks for sharing Bryan

Lovely Images again Gorann! I’m torn, I think the dust is more obvious and dramatic in v1 but v2 has a more ethereal quality I’m afraid I can’t choose at the moment, sorry, They are both equally worthy Thanks for sharing Bryan

Well done! Fabulous result for such a short integration! This is on my bucket list, too low for my garden unless I come to some arrangement with my lovely wife and she allows me to trim some of our out of control trees! Thanks for sharing Bryan

Thanks Lee I hope to own an eq8 or equivalent one day, at the moment I am carefully balancing it on my azeq6 on a homemade pier! I have tested many reducer/flatteners over the years and settled on the (not so cheap) Starizona LF focal reducer/flattener, if controls the stars well, good enough to even use it for mosaic imaging with my Atik383, I haven’t tried it with a bigger chip yet, no Autofocuser, just bahtinov mask and lack of sleep! I will post the image soon, I’ve not finished processing it yet and after seeing yours I’m tempted to start again! Thanks again Bryan

Love this! I have a version of the same area that I dedicated over 30 hours to with my 12” meade lx200 sct I think your version is gorgeous Thanks for sharing Bryan

Awesome! Olly, I will never forget when when you were trying to help me years ago when I was struggling with an image, you were suggesting I use DBE in Pixinsight and I complained that I needed to buy another piece of hardware, and software was lower on my list of priorities I think it was sept 2017 when you gave me this advice “However, software is equipment. Honestly, the contribution of processing software to the success or failure on an image can easily be greater than that of the hardware, depending on your sky. Olly“ I cannot believe what is capable now with software! images combined from several sessions/scopes/locations and seamlessly stitched together to produce something as wonderful as this! Bravo! And thank you for all the help and advice over the years I love this one especially as I can zoom in to an area of interest that I have been imaging recently and I can see it in some context Thanks for sharing Bryan

I too recommend astropixelprocessor There are some great tools to combine the sho in varying degrees to give less green more blue/gold as well Great start! Once you get the colour balance it’s going to be a fine image 😊 Bryan

You are welcome I am looking forward to seeing your revised image (not that there was anything wrong with your first!) Bryan 😊

Thanks Olly I’ve been mainly imaging with my 12” Meade for about 12 months now. Although I have quite a few scopes to play with I have really enjoyed the closeup nature of my original “serious telescope” the challenges it throws up and it’s predictable nature I hope one day to own a mount that will help me retain more usable subs, or a camera that doesn’t need 15min per sub to reveal the signal Thanks again for the comment Bryan

Your an artist! official! Another stunning image Gorann Bryan

Beautiful! love the star colour and the detail in the smaller blue reflection nebula below Thanks for sharing Bryan

Thanks AstroMuni I really appreciate the comment 😊 Bryan

Hi Simon After stacking the individual filters (in astropixelprocessor) I opened them in Pixinsight, applied blur terminator to each sub then combined them sho which came out green (as usual) I then applied scnr in pix to remove the green, the colour at this point was quite muted but not too dissimilar to the posted image I then used curves to alter the colour balance a bit I then stretched using eztools soft stretch Saved the file, and opened in photoshop (cs6) where I applied a 10% luminance layer (ha) which I blended at about 20% opacity I did a couple of extra things that I can’t quite remember, but the colour was tweaked in photoshop using a selective colour layer blended that in and did it again until I felt happy uploaded to my phone using OneDrive then used psxpress on my phone to tweak the contrast, sharpness, and colour balance again to make it look a bit cleaner Something like that, roughly selective colour is a great tool for altering the colour balance This could be useful? http://bf-astro.com/hubblep.htm Cheers Bryan

Thanks Simmo39 Thank you for the comment There was a time when I would have felt the same, and I still do when I see some of the amazing images posted on this site Thanks again Bryan

Stunning! Whoosh! Springs to mind! Sublime processing as usual Goran Thanks Bryan

Hi starfolk I nearly didn’t process this or post I didn’t get nearly enough sii and oiii to satisfy the Atik383 but I thought I’d have a go anyway as it’s always good to share your info to help anyone thinking about imaging the same object its 9 hours Ha 4 hours oii 3.75 hours sii scope: 12”Meade sct Starizona lf field flattener/reducer Mount: skywatcher azeq6 Camera: Atik 383l Filters 1.25 Astrodon process: astropixelprocessor, Pixinsight, Photoshop, ps Express It’s a bit of a crop Anyway….. Thanks for looking Bryan

Thank you for your kind words wesdon1 I’m happy you like the image 😊 Bryan

It looks like you have a strong candidate for the problem! No-one said this hobby is easy but it is satisfying when you solve yet another issue this hobby throws at you! I hope that’s it! Bryan

Thanks Carole Hope you are well? I appreciate the kind words 😊 Cheers Bryan

Fab! Nice closeup! So much going on! I was imaging the cone at a similar scale but the weather stepped in and stupors me at around 3 hours per channel I can see I should have stuck with it! Thanks for sharing Bryan

Wow! 😮

Lovely! loads of little galaxies in the background and nice star colour! Thanks for sharing Bryan

Thanks Dan I really appreciate the comment 😊 Cheers Bryan