Pacman in Hubble Palette

[Skipper Billy]

Pacman Nebula from last night. 2 hours Ha, 1.5 hours SII, 1.5 hours OIII. Takahashi 106EDXIIII, Atik460EXMono, Atik EFW3, Baader 2" Narrowband filters, Avalon Linear Fast Reverse mount guided by Evostar and Atik GP with PHD2. Fully calibrated with darks, bias and flats and processed in Pixinsight in 'Hubble Palette' with tweaks in Photoshop. Quite 'noisy' in places - could do with about triple the data but its a start!!

SHO_Hubble_palette_PACMANworkingcopy2.tif

[MarsG76]

awesome.. so much detail.

 

[Joeistotalycool]

Amazing image! The data looks awesome on PS. I made a few adjustments to the image to better suit my tastes:

I decreased the Greens in the image and increased the golds. I reduced the purple stars (a bit, I think they give the image more character  ) and decreased the size of the stars surrounding the nebula, making it pop out more. I would love to move onto a cooled, mono camera!

SHO_Hubble_palette_PACMANworkingcopy2 from Joe^^.tif

[john2y]

Very good data! I also played with it a bit in Pixi, got rid of the green and magenta, tweaked the curves and shrunk the stars a little. 

 

[saac]

1 hour ago, Skipper Billy said:

Pacman Nebula from last night. 2 hours Ha, 1.5 hours SII, 1.5 hours OIII. Takahashi 106EDXIIII, Atik460EXMono, Atik EFW3, Baader 2" Narrowband filters, Avalon Linear Fast Reverse mount guided by Evostar and Atik GP with PHD2. Fully calibrated with darks, bias and flats and processed in Pixinsight in 'Hubble Palette' with tweaks in Photoshop. Quite 'noisy' in places - could do with about triple the data but its a start!!

SHO_Hubble_palette_PACMANworkingcopy2.tif

 

Lovely work Billy, that's one of my favourite targets.  

Jim 

[Skipper Billy]

Thanks guys - you are right of course - I have fallen into the trap of not seeing the wood for the trees - here is the revised version......

SHO_Hubble_palette_PACMANworkingcopy2.tif

[steppenwolf]

Some nice detail here - what exposure lengths did you use?

[Skipper Billy]

1 minute ago, steppenwolf said:

what exposure lengths did you use?

All 600 seconds.

 

[steppenwolf]

1 minute ago, Skipper Billy said:

All 600 seconds.

Thank you for the info.!

[tooth_dr]

Fab again. Tight stars and lots of detail. Amazing results for short exposure time. 

[Xiga]

Very nice indeed David. The Atik must be very sensitive to pick up that amount in such a short time.

ps - Couldn't help but have a wee play in PS myself  (although with it being already processed to near completion there is obviously only so much that can be done). This is a target i really need to get to myself at some point, and with it being so well placed right now, i should probably do it sooner rather than later. Thanks for posting the .tif! 

 

[Guest]

Such an interesting capture of this object - I really like the way you re-processed it avoiding the bloat/blotchiness on the stars seen in joeistotallycool and john2y 's versions (although a good steer to bring out more detail on the right of the object)

Xiga's version is very good, moving the lower nebula colour towards the red a bit which has really brought out the detail against the darker black.

Perhaps something between Xiga's and yours?

Regardless - great image ?

David

(Edit: Having looked again I prefer your background to Xiga's. I know space is black but it your processing gives the impression of throwing a bit of the nebula colour out into the surrounding area - making it look "more natural" to me.)