M16 Eagle Nebula

[Gina]

I like that There's lots of nebulosity that nearly fills the frame and I would love to see a reprocessed image covering that area if you would be willing to do that, Carole. I love your images and think they're some of the best around

[sausages]

That is a fantastic image Carole!

[x6gas]

Nice capture - thanks for sharing.

[carastro]

Thanks very much every-one.

Thanks for you nice comments Gina, however the re-process did not show up so much of the surrounding nebulosity as the original process for some reason.

I'll take another look at it when I get a chance.

Carole

[Gina]

Thanks Carole - should be interesting

[carastro]

Well I have had another "go" at it, I don't think I can drag anything more out of it without also making the image very noisy (or at least noisier than it already is).

Carole

[Chris]

The pillars of creation look stunning Carole, well done fantastic image!

[Gina]

Yes, that's lovely Thank you Carole

[Anweniel]

Really good stuff Carole. There seems to be more of an issue with gradient towards the very bottom of the picture, a band about 5mm to my eye maybe it would be possible (if you wanted to ofc) to crop that off to give you a little more playing ground? There is another lighter band just above that may be restrictive - just a thought.

Overall the image is very impressive though and yes the pillars are excellent!

[wookie1965]

That is lovely id use that as a wallpaper on my desktop.

[carastro]

Thanks Starfox, Gina and Wookie.

@Anweniel

There seems to be more of an issue with gradient towards the very bottom of the picture, a band about 5mm

I can't see anything unless I turn up the brightness grossly and then I can see the notorious DSLR banding.

Sometimes this causes a problem with images, but on the whole it is not prominent enough to cause a problem. Since I did not notice it on this image I didn't do anything about it. Damn nuisance sometimes though.

Carole

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Like the image a lot, but do I see some jpeg artifacts in the posted version?

[luis]

Great capture on m16.

( I also have a Skywatcher ED120, and they are great for deep sky ).

[carastro]

Thanks Michael and Luis.

Jpeg artifacts, yes these are always a pain, I must remember to upload to Astrobin in PNG and then link from there.

Carole

[Gina]

I upload my PNG images directly to here. For other places I use Photobucket - I have their "payfor" account as I use it a lot with big images with heavy downloading.