NGC 2244

[vdb]

NGC 2244 FSQ 106/ASI 183 (G:75, O:8)/Mesu 200 150x5min SIIHaOIII

NGC2244SIIHAOIII by Yves, on Flickr

[Nick Smith]

Superb.  Lots of great detail!

[ultranova]

Beautifully captured and processed, a wall hanger if I have ever seen one

well done 

Paul 

[vlaiv]

Great rendition, but what's with defocus? It's not even subtle one.

At first I thought it was due to field curvature or something, because it can be best seen in corners, and then I thought it was one of the channels, but there seems to be defocused stars of various colors (some red, some blue).

 

 

[vdb]

I think It's not defocus,

I did not shoot RGB stars, so you have the typical magenta rings due to OIII stars being bigger, so I just did a rough desaturation of magenta, which gives that defocussed looks nut actually it's filled with magenta in the step before I did the desaturation.

 

/Yves

 

[vlaiv]

6 minutes ago, vdb said:

I think It's not defocus,

I did not shoot RGB stars, so you have the typical magenta rings due to OIII stars being bigger, so I just did a rough desaturation of magenta, which gives that defocussed looks nut actually it's filled with magenta in the step before I did the desaturation.

 

/Yves

 

Quite possible, it did look odd, almost too perfect "out of focus" patterns, and having some be red, while others yellow, white and blue did confuse me quite a bit.

[Sunshine]

Holy shneikies that beautiful!