Billy Goes back to the Flame and HHN - after the dark stuff - ReProcessed

[Psychobilly]

Im intruiged by the faint nebulosity around the Flame and HHN so decided to try and go deeper on the target last night (or should that be this morning) in particualr after the darker stuff that the classic HHN pops up out of...

In an attempt I upped the "speed" to ISO1600 and took 24x300s subs compared to 19x300s at ISO800 on Tuesday Morning..

Heres the result - remeber the whole point of this exercise is to leave in the fainter stuff that normaly gets processed out for a black sky....

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I might try combinign the data from Tuedasy and this morning...

Hmmmmm

Billy...

Ok I Combined 19x300s @ ISO800 with 24x300s @ ISO1600 and had a play trying to find the middle ground between the black sky and faint neb stuff...

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What do you think?

[Psychobilly]

Ok Final play for now and in 16:10 widescreen...

19x300 ISO800 + 24x300 ISO1600...

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Food then bed...

Billy...

[steppenwolf]

I particularly like image two of the three above - great dust detail in there

[Psychobilly]

Thask Steve,

I just can't make my mind up which way to go with this one...

Perhaps i'll sleep on it...starting to flag a bit now...need food and some ugly sleep incase the weather clears again.

Billy...

[LostNSpace]

Cant believe you havent slept yet billy......saying that i only got 3hrs sleep myself......

Nice image and processing, like the 3rd image, very colourful.......

Mark

[CELESCOPE]

nice shots Billy , second one for me to shows great detail and contrast

Rog

[RobH]

Second one for me too Billy, great depth to it.

Cheers

Rob

[Psychobilly]

Well i'm certainly not going to argue with you guys (Steve,Rog and Rob) ...but .

..there had to be a but...

These look cut out and stuck on rateher than natural....if natural is the right word...

Probably its a reaction as i went through a phase where i was grossly overprocessing and have now swung too far the other way....

Billy...

Billy...

[Sam]

Billy,

I like the first one - as you say the purpose is to get the faint stuff so I think the dark neb you've extracted below the flame - looks like a big wishbone - is great. Well done!!!

Sam

[Jeff RV]

Nice one Billy, the second has some nice detail along with excellent colour.

I like that!!

Jeff.

[thing]

2nd one for me Billy, although i like the 3rd one too..............er, I like them all.

[Taff]

Hi Billy' They are great images great colour.Taff

[MartinB]

The first one achieves the aim, it really does show up the dark stuff and well worth the effort.