Eastern veil nebula

[gonzostar]

Hi its being a long while since I have posted. Life issues blah blah

This is my version of Eastern veil nebula.  The data has being collected over past 2months and is  cropped.  

Telescope - 102mm APO ES refractor on a AVX mount

Camera- Canon 70d unmoded iso800 with a IDAS-D2 filter.  

Duration 15hours - 300s lights., Darks, flats and bias frames also taken

Guided with PHD2 and processed in PS

Cheers thanks for looking. Of course any improvements welcome

Dean

[Lee_P]

Nicely done, you've obviously got a lot of good quality data in there. I'd be interested to see a version with the background a little darker -- might make the nebula pop even more.

[assouptro]

Great result for an unmodded camera!
There is a lot of data there, like Lee said you could darken the background a bit and maybe enhance the nebula for a bit more impact? 
well done and thanks for sharing 

Bryan 

[gonzostar]

Thanks for feedback much appreciated. Will give another go and darken background a little. Always sceptical though to go jet black

Cheers

Dean

[gonzostar]

Hope this is improvement 

[Sterrenland]

Looks a lot better in the second version with the increased contrast. Great image.

[assouptro]

2 hours ago, gonzostar said:

Thanks for feedback much appreciated. Will give another go and darken background a little. Always sceptical though to go jet black

Cheers

Dean

I agree, best to avoid jet black as space generally isn't!

You posted the second version just as I was playing with a screenshot of your first and I think we have come up with similar results 

I hope you don't mind 

Cheers 

Bryan

[peter shah]

nice rendition

[gonzostar]

12 minutes ago, assouptro said:

I agree, best to avoid jet black as space generally isn't!

You posted the second version just as I was playing with a screenshot of your first and I think we have come up with similar results 

I hope you don't mind 

Cheers 

Bryan

Well done Bryan, Yours is better squeezing out more detail

Thankyou

 

[assouptro]

Just now, gonzostar said:

Well done Bryan, Yours is better squeezing out more detail

Thankyou

 

Thanks Dean 

I wouldn’t say it’s ‘better’, just different, your original image is smoother, I just used starnet to remove the stars then used photoshop to copy the remaining starless image, changed the new layer to soft light then used filter, other, high pass filter, about 10px to sharpen then reduced the opacity to about 70% 

I then transferred it to topaz Denoise to reduce the noise and sharpen again slightly, back to photoshop and added the denoise version as a soft light high pass filtered layer again about 70%
Added the stars then used Annie’s actions to reduce the star size 

Not as natural as yours tbh

cheers 

Bryan 

[gonzostar]

Thats great. Must also learn to do those  processes aswell. 

Cheers

Dean

[Lee_P]

11 hours ago, gonzostar said:

Hope this is improvement 

Even better than the original