M97 more leisurely re edit

[MartinB]

I love that first process after gathering a load of data, looking to see what comes out of those grainy subs. Trouble is it usually ends up a bit of a mess. So my owl has had a bit of a preen.

Sorted out a mis alignment with the Ha and OIII. Done 2 iterations of deconvolution with CCDsharp, cropped out the rubbish from the off axis prism and taken a bit of care over the back ground.

What I though was a faint fuzzy artefact on the star above and to the left of the neb is actually a pukka bit of starriness, not sure what though. So here's my second stab at it. No doubt I wont be happy with it in the morning but I promise I wont post any more!

[Beyond_Vision]

Looks like you have been having a hoot of a time with that one

Looks pristine now

Regards

Kevin

[Tim]

I know a bloke who stayed at home processing his Owl nebula instead of going out courting his young lady. Being a rainy night, he said it was too wet to woo..........

Thats lovely Martin, very natural looking. How big is this target, in relation to say, the ring nebula?

[Ant]

Now that is a cracker! Thats a lovely smooth Owl.

It looks different to images I've seen before - that I guess could be down to using OIII for one of the channels?

Either way I think it's nice, nice detail in the outer layers of the nebula.

Ant

[brendant]

Excellent reprocess Martin, what was already a beautiful image is now a superb image, definition and colour much better and a great job on the noise reduction. Top job.

Brendan

[Psychobilly]

Great re-process Martin

Billy...

[SteveL]

I know a bloke who stayed at home processing his Owl nebula instead of going out courting his young lady. Being a rainy night, he said it was too wet to woo..........

[Whippy]

Nice one Martin, it looks definately more 'refined' for want of a better word.

Oh, and Tim...

[bazza]

You've oozed every tiny bit of detail out of that Owl Martin.

Lovely job - super processing.

Barry.

[MartinB]

Thanks guys.

TJ - The Owl is probably a bit over twice the size of the ring but a lot smaller than M27

[ollypenrice]

Exquisite the way the blues and greens overlap and merge around the edge of the nebula. This is a really natural looking Owl. Yhey often look very stark, I think.

Olly.

[RobH]

I totally agree with Olly's views. Very nice feel to this Martin.

Chers

Rob

[MartinB]

Thanks Olly and Rob, very useful feedback. It's one of those targets that can be treated 101 ways so I wasn't really sure whether I was on the right lines.

[scotastro]

One of my fav objects -great image.

The fuzziness you mentioned could be faint galaxy PGC 34279 nearby.

Mike