A colourful bird...

[Martin-Devon]

Yes, it's another Pelican, although this one is in full narrowband processed in the standard Hubble palette version, so SHO = RGB, and then colour modified. The data was collected over 4 nights early July and consists of 30 subs H-alpha, 18 subs OIII and 18 subs SII, all 10 minutes, so there's 11 hours of data here.

Thanks for looking,

Martin

[Mark72]

The bird is just about to take off.

Great rendition Martin, a wall-hanger.

Mark

[swag72]

A super image Martin, showing great dust detail. The colours have come out beautifully as well. One tiny nit pick, the more I look at it, I wish there was just a tad bit more space above it. But that's just a personal framing issue.

[JohnC64]

stunning image - 3D in appearance

[Jannis]

Simply stunning!

[Gina]

Wonderful

[kingboya]

Very very nice!

[WaveSoarer]

Superb.

[ollypenrice]

Lovely. Nicely understated but packed with detail. No horrible stars either! (This can be a big issue but it isn't here.)

Olly

[Martin-Devon]

Thanks for the comments from everybody, they are much appreciated.

Sara I think you are correct, if I was doing this again I would make a small adjustment to the framing to have a little more above the head region.

Martin

[cloudbuster]

Crisp as u like, subtle colours...great image Martin!

[Fay]

Martin that really is lovely, very nice colours,, good stars, not overdone, just right

Fay

[leemanley]

beautiful image that

[jarbi]

An awsome image Martin, I love the colors ! Are you using Photoshop for color modification ? I am tempted again to get to know Pixinsight, I saw some people doing real magic in it,

Clear skies,

Janos

[Martin-Devon]

Thanks again for the comments!

Janos, yes I use Photoshop for the colour, the first step is to follow the colour modifications described here: http://bf-astro.com/hubbleP.htm and then the proper processing begins. I do a lot of further colour tweaks though using the Selective Colour sliders, there's a lot of options on the colour balance. With the Pelican it's actually a little tricky holding some of the blue back, there is so much of it. I tried PixInsight for 2-3 weeks a while ago, and decided that I'll revisit it again at some point in the future. It's clearly very powerful, but I would need to invest much more time than I had, so parked it for a while.

Martin

[x6gas]

Sorry to be late to this one, but let me add my congratulations and admiration - that's a stunning image, beautifully and tastefully processed. I love the understated, pastel colours - but it is certainly a colourful image!

Your images are some of those setting the bar for what can be achieved with a mobile set-up under UK skies Martin - fantastic stuff.

[Coco]

Excellent...

[Barry-Wilson]

Wonderful Martin. Setting the bar, I agree. Hopefully some clear skies this weekend . . . . ?

Barry

[Herrman]

Beautiful, vivid image, with stacks of detail, marvelous! Herrman