The Northern Lagoon Nebula NGC7538

[powerlord]

Not seen many people shooting this one in close up, so thought I'd give it a go.

450 mins of 10 min subs with asi533 and L-extreme and my 200pds.

Processed in APP and Affinity Photo, with a sort of HOO palette to bring out its 'lagooness'

stu

 

[The Lazy Astronomer]

Nice capture - I haven't really seen any images where this object takes centre stage (it seems normally to be the poor relative of it's much more famous nearby nebulae).

One thing I would say though, and this is probably a personal thing, but the transition between the blues and the surrounding brownish dust is quite hard (I'm guessing you used some selective colour masking during processing) - it does give some sense of depth, but I think a softer transition would give a more natural appearance. 

On the other hand, if there was no selective masking done and this object does have these fairly prominant transitions between the gases, then feel free to tell me to shut up and go away! 😁

[powerlord]

I feel the same way. The weird thing is I didn't do any masking. But yeh - it does, AND that is with added smoothing. I maybe need to take another stab at processing it I think.

stu

[powerlord]

here's another processing attempt, making sure I don't blow out anything this time.

there's definately more to this target - but it's not an easy one to make interesting I admit.