The Fossil Footprint - NGC 1491

[MarkAR]

Hi all, here's my latest effort in SHO drizzled.

Total integration was 

27 x 600s Ha

17 x 600s Oiii

19 x 600s Sii

Processed in PI. Also added a large Tiff and a starless image for those that like them. 

 

Fossil_SHO.tif

Edited September 20, 2020 by MarkAR

[andrew s]

I think the stars have it for me.

Regards Andrew 

[don4l]

Superb image.  Very nicely processed.

[laudropb]

With stars for me too.

[MarkAR]

Cheers everyone, I prefer my images with stars but some nebula do look great without, not this one though.

It was my first real attempt using Starnet++ to do any tweaking, separating stars and nebulosity and tweaking the colour curves separately makes things so easy.

[vineyard]

Wow both of those are beautiful - the subtleties of the colours.  Agree that the one with stars 'feels' better - almost like a portal floating out there & I think the stars add some perspective to the whole thing - ethereal.

The starless one reminds me of a portion of a religious fresco you might see in an old church - just needs a dove in there somewhere!

[MarkAR]

8 minutes ago, vineyard said:

portion of a religious fresco you might see in an old church

You can almost imagine it's the view Lucifer had after being thrown out of heaven.

[vineyard]

6 hours ago, MarkAR said:

You can almost imagine it's the view Lucifer had after being thrown out of heaven.

Great call.  From Paradise Lost:

"Him the Almighty Power

Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky

With hideous ruin and combustion down

To bottomless perdition, there to dwell

In adamantine chains and penal fire" 😮