Cocoon HaLRGB reprocessed.

[ollypenrice]

Inspired by Xiga's wonderful LRGB shot of this field, I went back to my own HaLRGB version and gave it the radical star reduction treatment. The view is certainly different this way! (Inspiration for taking an an Ha layer came from Fabian Neyer who did it first.) This uses RASA 8 OSC data taken with Paul Kummer and earlier Tak FSQ105 HaLRGB.

 

Olly

 

[tooth_dr]

Oh boy that is a stunner!  What did you do with the Ha layer Olly?

[AMcD]

The sense of depth created by the dust against the background is stunning.  Amazing work.

[ollypenrice]

1 hour ago, tooth_dr said:

Oh boy that is a stunner!  What did you do with the Ha layer Olly?

I gave it aggressive stretches in Curves like this, though of dimishing extremity...

and then de-starred it. (In future I'll always de-star Ha layers when adding them to red as I do, since this will leave the RGB stars totally unaffected.) I then added the Ha to red in blend mode lighten.

Olly