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Thanks Martin. Glad you like It's a team work.

Wonderful images! How did you managed the stars?

A detail of soul nebula HSO. 4+4 hours Ha and O3. Mix of techniques in PI and PS. This has satisfy me. As usual, a special thanks to my "eyes" Tiziana. Her suggestions on colours are invaluable.

An experiment in tone map, with 4+4 hours in Ha and O3. 200mm Nikon and asi1600mm Cropped. Work in progress

I'll sure give a try on this! Amazing hint! This weekend, work in progress!

Uhm... You make me thinking. I always got that cmos give no improvement but your explanation has some base to be considered. As soon as weather will allow me, I will try to gather O3 (that is always weak) with bin2x. Thank you!

Thanks Vlav for the detailed feedback. I really appreciate. I agree about binning but with my cmos there is no advantage unlike ccd. I will try to darken a little the background. Just a note, I explain maybe in a bad way. 6 hours and 40 is the total H and O together. Again thanks for your suggestions.

Undecided if post it or not. Let's say I'm satisfied about this image but not as much I would. I feel it can be improved. Maybe also on colours but honestly, with my eye colour blindness, not easy. TS80ED flattened and asi1600mm. Eq5 (I want a better one...) And postprocessed in Pixinsight. 80 light of 300" in Ha and O3. How to boost the already captured O3? How to improve the process? C&CC really appreciate. Clear skies!

Woah..... Seems both are good.... I've done the starless in artistic way (different colours that doesn't match the SHO palette) mainly because I have some kind of colour blindness. But the result, at the end, is not so bad....

Hard choice here Someone like the artistic some other the more traditional one... Could you help me in the choice? From this, will continue the project.

Thank you Alan. Really appreciate. As soon as I have some time I would like to manage the stars that always give me trouble.

Here we go with another project. At the moment only the starless version of this beautiful subject. Suggestion always welcome, with thanks

Thanks Ragnar! The first idea is a bicolour Ha-OIII, but will see at the end about the RGB. This especially for the stars. The acquisition data are my usual: asi1600mmc over a EQ5. All from a bortle 8 urban area. About guiding, I always use a 60/240 guidescope with a qhy5l and phd2. With this setup and a baader 7nm Ha filter I can go with 600" light at gain 200 without big problem.

The idea of a teddy bear is a new one but you are right! I'm also in with continuous fine tuning but sadly the weather.....

Wow... This idea is mind blowing! Congratulations! I should consider the wood, maybe a hard one.

Hi guys. I'm using a Skywatcher EQ5 mount (Skyscan, but not important). In order to gain some more degree in the celestial, I would like to make an extension to the tripod. Basically interpose an elongation between mount and head. Have someone already done something similar? Can you share? Whatever: drawings, idea, pictures, suggestion and so on, all are welcome Many thanks for the help

First one. Don't know how to explain but some part has a kind of transparency between the colors that make a veil effect (....and talking about Veil nebula......;) )

Nice one. What camera? 400 gain seems a lot. Also 200 (that I use for Ha) seems already a lot... But you get very clean and good details!

And nothing...I suppose I fall in love with the 200mm focal length. This is tailor cut for the Heart and soul complex. Frame is nicely filled and details start to come out. It is just the first set of 4hours in Ha that will increase as soon as weather will cooperate. For this project I change the single ring 80-200 with a more recent dual ring lens. Seems some problem in the past shots (elongated stars) was due to some internal issue as in this image, the one with the stars, things are greatly improved. A small remain of tilt for which I must work around. To be continued....

An image to keep as example for both acquisition and post processing.

I know what you mean. Last night, rare good sky but humidity like rain, I trusted to much the first two frames O3 and let setup go... The anti dew was not connected to the power. Three hours just trash....

Very nice and detailed starless version. Agree with you, some stars will complete it. As an open cluster I suppose will be difficult to say which star belong to mel15. Maybe an arbitrary choice based on your eye?

I agree, also with Alan. The subject deserve more data. Very nice details anyway.

This has been my favourite Xmas photo since I "discover" the flaming star. It reminds me the fireplace in a early Holy Night. Your image is detailed and balanced. I like how you make all the shades of the red and how is fading on the background. Stars are almost perfect (Envy this....) One personal, aesthetic note. With a slightly different framing, maybe a little big angle to include the "flame" (in your photo the right side) the effect of a fire will be more evident.

Uhm.....the manual iris sounds quite nice. But should say the spikes are not a disturbing factor than the elongated stars. Will work about.... Ps.yes, it's really one of the sharpest lens.