AbsolutelyN Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 (edited) Inspired by AlexBB's stunning recent Iris Nebula image I thought I'd have first attempt at this one too given the brief two days of relative clear skies at new moon between the otherwise constant rain. This is approx 15 hours over two nights (bortle 5), mostly luminence with about 90 mins each for RGB. 2 min exposures at unity gain with the 1600MM & Esprit 80. Interesting figuring out how to tease out the background dust, much still to learn, hope to add more for higher image quality in the future. Edited October 3, 2019 by AbsolutelyN 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allinthehead Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 That's a beauty. Lovely and dusty as the Iris should be. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutelyN Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 Thanks Richard, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiggy 67 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Beautiful, love the almost 3D effect in clouds to the right of the core 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustspeakers Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Dust clouds turned out really well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutelyN Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 Thanks, first time processing dust, took best part of a day to figure out how to make it show up well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutelyN Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Not sure about this one but I had a go at making it starless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carastro Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Excellent. You've done a really good job bringing out the dust, but If you use Photoshop for processing, you might want to look at Olly's recent thread "Exploiting the Equalize function in photoshop" for bringing out the faint stuff. Carole 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutelyN Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 Thanks Carole, that's much appreciated, I'll search for that thread. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbb Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Yours looks smoother than mine, I really like how you brought up the dust, those hours of luminance really paid off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lux eterna Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 You have a great image there, with both details and still a natural look. Could you just mention some hints on what you found most useful in the dust development workflow ? Ragnar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan potts Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Beautiful image that you have taken there, if you find Olly's post can you put a link on here I couldn't find it. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don4l Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 13 minutes ago, alan potts said: Beautiful image that you have taken there, if you find Olly's post can you put a link on here I couldn't find it. Alan I've played with it, and I must say that it can produce stunning results with remarkably little effort. [Gimp users can find the function under "Colours -> Auto -> Equalise"] 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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