Melotte 15

[Rodd]

Experimental bicolor Ha and OIII--Waiting for SII. 

 

[fireballxl5]

may be an experiment, but it's a great result!

[Rodd]

Just now, fireballxl5 said:

may be an experiment, but it's a great result!

Thanks! 

[Allinthehead]

Holy carp. That's good.

[Astroscot2]

Very nice, what are the exposure details ?

 

Mark

[Rodd]

5 minutes ago, Allinthehead said:

Holy carp. That's good.

Thanks Allin

[Rodd]

1 minute ago, Astroscot2 said:

Very nice, what are the exposure details ?

 

Mark

20 30 min Ha and 12 30 min OIII.  TOA 130 and STT-8300.  Now the Moon is coming around again so may have to wait for the rest of the OIII.  Maybe I'll start the SII

Rodd

[MarsG76]

That is amazingly good detail... well done

 

[Rodd]

1 minute ago, MarsG76 said:

That is amazingly good detail... well done

 

Thanks...much appreciated!

Rodd

[Mognet]

For something you describe as 'experimental', that's a great image

[Rodd]

2 minutes ago, Mognet said:

For something you describe as 'experimental', that's a great image

Thanks Mognet.  I usually don't have much luck with bicolored images.  I didn't know what to expect, and found the processing a bit frustrating.  The reds are a bit on the pink side for me, but  I am more pleased than I thought I would be.

Rodd

[wxsatuser]

Nice compostion, the dusty, dark regions giving way to the bright new born region.

[johnrt]

Very nice Rodd, I like the colours you have chosen here.

[Rodd]

6 hours ago, wxsatuser said:

Nice compostion, the dusty, dark regions giving way to the bright new born region.

Thanks Mike.  It is a very dusty region.

Eodd

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, johnrt said:

Very nice Rodd, I like the colours you have chosen here.

Thanks John.  

Rodd

[Shibby]

That's lovely, you've achieved a really nice looking colour balance for bi-colour.

[tooth_dr]

On 26/09/2017 at 22:43, Rodd said:

Experimental bicolor Ha and OIII--Waiting for SII. 

 

 

Beautiful image.  It almost doesn't look real it so good!

[Rodd]

2 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

 

Beautiful image.  It almost doesn't look real it so good!

Thanks....much appreciated

Rodd

[Rodd]

On 9/28/2017 at 06:58, Shibby said:

That's lovely, you've achieved a really nice looking colour balance for bi-colour.

Thanks Shibby!

Rodd

[Rodd]

Here's the SHO palette with Ha added as lum.  Same Ha and OIII data, with 15 30 min SII subs.  A total of 23.5 hours

 

 

[Barry-Wilson]

Nice work Rodd.  I particularly like the Hubble palette version.

[Rodd]

43 minutes ago, Barry-Wilson said:

 

Nice work Rodd.  I particularly like the Hubble palette version.

Thanks Barry--I was inspired by your image on DSO Browser.  I did not get the rich golds that you did however.  Color is a tricky thing.  I don't do much color manipulation--SCNR for green--that's about it.  maybe some minor histogram tweaks.  In this case I think I did bump up the blue and its on the verge of being too much. I usually go with what the Channel Combination tool produces--which is never the classic Hubble palate!  Here's a version with a synthetic luminance composed of all 47 subs inserted as a luminance channel instead of the Ha stack, which is what I usually do.  The idea was the central cork screw and arch structures contain allot of SII, so why not enhance them with more than just Ha. 

 

 

 

[Filroden]

Another great image. Particularly the last one. I can almost feel myself falling into the image it has such depth.

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, Filroden said:

Another great image. Particularly the last one. I can almost feel myself falling into the image it has such depth.

Thanks Ken.  It is amazing what fine details our scopes can pick up.

Rodd

[toxic]

lovely image Rodd love the golds in the last one