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[Rodd]

Another data set that was so fun to process I invariably over did it. Pushed it into the realm of Roger Rabbit.  After stepping away from it and becoming obsessed with another data set, I finally was able to put a governor on the car, so to speak. I think there is still room for improvement, but the gulf has gotten smaller. It holds up fairly well to Bin1 

C11 edge .7x reducer and asi 1600. About 15 hours.  I did not use the Ha as I needed a lot more.  A couple of hours seemed to just redden the palette   
 

[Sunshine]

It’s a wonderful image, love the contrast against that background.

[simmo39]

Another fine image Rodd, where do you get the time to do all these Im lucky to get a couple of hours a week.

[Rodd]

11 hours ago, Sunshine said:

It’s a wonderful image, love the contrast against that background.

Thanks Sunshine

[Rodd]

5 hours ago, simmo39 said:

Another fine image Rodd, where do you get the time to do all these Im lucky to get a couple of hours a week.

The art of the reprocess.   I captured this image months ago. I am never satisfied so I reprocess, and reprocess, and reprocess, and….

[The Lazy Astronomer]

This is lovely - I really like the colour, and the brightness and contrast is spot on, in my opinion.

[Rodd]

12 hours ago, The Lazy Astronomer said:

This is lovely - I really like the colour, and the brightness and contrast is spot on, in my opinion.

Thanks so much. 

[Rodd]

I decided to add the Ha. Subtle? But I think worthwhile.  If I had a stronger ha stack it would be nice

[Pompey Monkey]

4 minutes ago, Rodd said:

I decided to add the Ha. Subtle? But I think worthwhile.  If I had a stronger ha stack it would be nice

I like this - The Ha somehow adds depth to the image.

Did you tweak the curves on the overall image much?

Edit: Or maybe it's just the crop?

Either way, I still prefer the second.

Edited October 7, 2022 by Pompey Monkey
Another perspective

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, Pompey Monkey said:

I like this - The Ha somehow adds depth to the image.

Did you tweak the curves on the overall image much?

Edit: Or maybe it's just the crop?

Either way, I still prefer the second.

I did crop as you know. Then I extracted the red channel from my HaLRGB version (after aligning the images) and inserted it in the red channel of this version.  I reduced the red channel a bit with curves prior to insertion. I think I used a color mask to cover the  foremost core dust lane to reduce saturation ( it was too red) and a very slight curve adjustment to the core region.  

[Pompey Monkey]

4 minutes ago, Rodd said:

I did crop as you know. Then I extracted the red channel from my HaLRGB version (after aligning the images) and inserted it in the red channel of this version.  I reduced the red channel a bit with curves prior to insertion. I think I used a color mask to cover the  foremost core dust lane to reduce saturation ( it was too red) and a very slight curve adjustment to the core region.  

Wow! A lot more finesse than I can apply.

The end result is smashing.

[Rodd]

20 minutes ago, Pompey Monkey said:

Wow! A lot more finesse than I can apply.

The end result is smashing.

Thanks, CS!

[assouptro]

Rodd!

That is beautiful!

What a stunning image sensitively processed

Thank you for sharing

Bryan  

[Rodd]

1 hour ago, assouptro said:

Rodd!

That is beautiful!

What a stunning image sensitively processed

Thank you for sharing

Bryan  

Your welcome, Bryan. Thanks for looking