M16, Olly's version.

[ollypenrice]

Yves did most of the capture on this one and we shared thoughts on processing. This is a narrowband dominated image and I'm no good at that! It has 9 hours Ha, a bit less O111 and an hour per channel RGB, all in Yves' ODK14. Yves has got much better stars. These are pretty naff! Must try harder. Anyway, the whole image;

then a crop of the Claw

and finally, for a bit of fun, the nebula right at the top which we decided to call The Running Ninja Nebula...

Olly

[dtr42]

wonderful pictures [even the naff stars ]

[Anweniel]

Lovely the nebulosity is really nice I always like the darker matter you manage to fish out, Im not fussed about stars to be honest but your 'naff' ones put my best to shame!

[E621Keith]

That is stunning, probably one of the best Eagle nebular image I've seen. I really like how the dark nebula in the top image looks

[squeaky]

Fabulous.

Love "The Running Ninja" too

[rfdesigner]

wonderful image.

I don't quite know what to say... I want a mesu?..

Derek

[Gina]

Magnificent - beautiful image

[swag72]

Blimey Olly - You reckon those stars are naff? They stand up to scrutiny well even at a crop. Nicely done, me likey!!

[farunj]

Magnificent!! Beautiful!!

[petey]

i aint had my scope out since 6th may can i come live at your house? :grin: , amazing pics i would be happy just to see a star right now.

pete

[carlc]

The cropped version of the claw is almost scary.

I love the depth in these photos. Brilliant.

[ollypenrice]

i aint had my scope out since 6th may can i come live at your house? :grin: , amazing pics i would be happy just to see a star right now.

pete

Well actually, yes, since it is an astronomy guest house!!!

Olly

[petey]

oops... must learn to read, maybe i was just over-awed by your incredible pics, right just off to pack, cya soon

pete

[FranckiM06]

Wow, it is stunning image Olly,

Really great shot and splendid image.

Franck

[sologuitarist61]

Smashing picture Olly. If those are naff stars then I will settle for them any day - well done

[Quatermass]

Great image Olly, you are the master of the universe

[Uranium235]

Very nice, a good dose of SII would make it even better. And it might make the stars a lot more fun for you to process

[Anweniel]

Great image Olly, you are the master of the universe

That was Adam, Prince of Eternia AKA He-man! Unless Olly rides a green tiger and swings swords about - Not sure Yves would be too happy about this near his ODK! Plus i expect its a bit nippy at that altitude for loin-cloth action

[ollypenrice]

That was Adam, Prince of Eternia AKA He-man! Unless Olly rides a green tiger and swings swords about - Not sure Yves would be too happy about this near his ODK! Plus i expect its a bit nippy at that altitude for loin-cloth action

You'd be surprised...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Olly

[Tom OD]

Super shot Olly. I prefer this higher contrast than Yves' version (Sorry Yves). I certainly don't notice any issues with the stars. I see what you mean about the Ha strenght though. I think if you could nab another few hours of RGB data,it would really show in the image. I had the same problem with Seimis 47. I found it hard to balance the colour correctly. In fact never did to any satisfaction. How to get the Ha detail in the pic without making the red channel saturate. Maybe throw some Ha into each channel?

T.

[Tom OD]

Oh yeah thought it was Simon Templar, until I read your "Running Ninja" title.

T.

[jflowers]

I hope the 'Running Ninja' catches on

Lovely pics, Naff stars indeed

[andrew63]

And i thought M16 looked good in my 10x50s last night...

andrew

[Avdhoeven]

Wonderfull! It's a great image! I just put a small deconvolution over it here, and I think it even gets a tad sharper without gaining noise or so... (except the jpg noise, it should be done on the original 16 bit to gain the most). I attached it. If that's not ok, just tell me and I'll remove it again...

[vdb]

Can't see that deconv has added something. Shouldn't it be done on linear data?

Yves.