Iris Nebula

[martin_h]

I started imaging this in March but got distracted by full moons and mosaics, but kept going back to it and grabbing some more frames over time. This is a combination of RGB filterd images and one shot colour images for a total of around 24 hours imaging time.

Taken with ED80's and QHY9 mono and colour.

A composite image comprising of straight RBG for the dust and stars and a LRGB image for the blue core, layer masked in with a gaussian blur to obtain a blend.

Stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight and PS, seperate images registerd in Registar.

[Yoddha]

Huge project and stunning result!

[Dave Smith]

That is brilliant - you must have loads of patience.

Dave

[swag72]

I absolutely love the detail that you have got in the middle. You have really held that core fantastically well, superb result. Some of the stars look a little odd to me though.

[lukebl]

Gorgeous. Nicely done. And I also love the fine detail in the middle contrasting with the bright star field around it.

[ollypenrice]

Superb and with some serious data gathering. Colour is spot on. You do have a minor artefact in the centres of some stars but these would easily blur out.

You have indeed held the core but for my taste the 'look' of it is a bit too 'PI wavelets' to my eye, but I daresay it's just me. This tool does divide opinion.

Anyway it is truly a stunning result and a beautiful picture.

Olly

[vince]

Fantastic! High on my list of targets

Vince

[Uranium235]

I think this might be one of your best works yet. Great detail in the centre of the nebula.

[harry page]

Hi

Very nice and deep , A huge effort is required to get any decent dust showing top marks young man

The inverted stars are caused by you using HDR wavlets , you need to use a star mask to prevent this ( there is a vid on my site on how to do this )

Regards Harry

[martin_h]

Any better?

[peter shah]

both superb....a very tough target very nicely finished good colour to the dark stuff 24 hours well spent

[harry page]

Hi

The pic is a lower res , but the stars look better

Harry

[steppenwolf]

Wow, this is great and what a monster of data capture. Well worth the time spent though!

[martin_h]

Hi

The pic is a lower res , but the stars look better

Harry

I just had a quick play with the JPEG, will sort the fullsize later

[martin_h]

Wow, this is great and what a monster of data capture. Well worth the time spent though!

Lots of hours but spread over lots of months, so it didn't feel so bad.

[Coco]

very nice indeed Martin... almost 3D

[Beyond_Vision]

I like the detail in the core especially nestlled in all that dust. Worth all the effort put in. Hopefully you will be able to sort out the stars and it will be spot on

Regards

Kevin

[MartinB]

So much dust, well done Martin for your perseverence, it's paid off in spades

[psemil]

Incredible patience.

This spring I made a similar photo of M101 comprising 15 hours from 4 astronomers and the result was not what we expected.

So I know how hard it was to make this image.

CONGRATULATION.