100 light years across cosmic rose

[Firas]

Taken almost exactly one year ago, but as usual never had the time to work on it properly until some days ago.

During processing I realised that there was no reason to go after excessive detail when imaging wide field. So I sacrificed details for the sake of richer color variations, which took the longest time of the processing, (Over 20 hours)

I believe keeping great detail and rich color at the same time, is something that is very difficult to achieve. Perhaps it is possible in the future with the my new Newtonian and as processing technics progresses.

This was 7.2 hours, with two thirds for Ha and one third for OIII.

Balcony shooting from central Stockholm. 

Acquisition details and higher resolution here;

https://www.astrobin.com/full/efbiup/0/

Thanks

 

Edited February 14, 2020 by Firas

[Hughsie]

I think that is beautiful.

 

[des anderson]

Those colors.......Just amazing. Des

[Adam1234]

Incredible image 

[MarkAR]

Stunning image.

[Brian Maurer]

Great image! You may have motivated me to process the images I have. I doubt I’ll get that nice rich color you have.

[Firas]

21 hours ago, Hughsie said:

I think that is beautiful.

 

 

18 hours ago, des anderson said:

Those colors.......Just amazing. Des

 

14 hours ago, MarkAR said:

Stunning image.

 

9 hours ago, Brian Maurer said:

Great image! You may have motivated me to process the images I have. I doubt I’ll get that nice rich color you have.

Thanks guys! Very much appreciated! 

@Brian Maurer Just take your time with the processing. When you think it looks good try to push even further. I spent around 20 hours just to get the right color variations I was after.  Good luck 

[MartinB]

Absolutely beautiful, the colours are exquisite and there is a real sense of depth to the image.

[Firas]

On 15/02/2020 at 22:34, MartinB said:

Absolutely beautiful, the colours are exquisite and there is a real sense of depth to the image.

Thank you for a very kind comment Martin!

I think Bi-color yields greater color combination possibilities than SHO. 

The longest time was spent on to decide which color combination I deemed the most interesting. There was literary dozen opened images from pixel math and Pixinsight window looked like a war zone. 

Cheers

[astro mick]

One of the best images i have seen of the Rosette.

Cracking job.

Mick.

[Firas]

On 25/02/2020 at 20:34, astro mick said:

One of the best images i have seen of the Rosette.

Cracking job.

Mick.

Much appreciated Mick! Glad you liked it. 

   

[Firas]

https://www.astrobin.com/full/276652/0/

This was the first attempt 3,5 years ago! Progression is probably the most important driving force in this hobby. 

 

[alan potts]

I was going to say exactly the same as Martin, except instead of exquisite I was going to use superb. Great image and very well done.

Alan

[Firas]

Thank you Alan!