The Eye of God

[ASIGN_Baz]

One dark night in 2 months!! What is going on with this planet!!!

I got 18 subs of 12 minutes and 26 Darks subtracted.

I am still not happy with this. It is SOOOO faint, there has to be a happy medium between getting enough light from the DSO, and not washing it out with light pollution from the 'burbs.

I think I will have to go back to 15 or even 20 minute exposure and see how that goes.

So here it is, 3 hours 36 minutes of the Helix (Eye of God) nebula.

I am still going to get more subs to add for a total of around six hours hopefully.

Baz.

[ashenlight]

Stunning Baz, the colours in it are magical. Can't wait to see what happens with some more subs

[ASIGN_Baz]

Stunning Baz, the colours in it are magical. Can't wait to see what happens with some more subs

Me either......

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Baz.... will come to life with more subs....

Dark or Clear

[Aza]

Looking good so far! With the extra time you plan on it, it should end up being a great final result.

Fingers crossed on the weather playing ball though. Imaging time seems to be get less and less as time goes by

[ashenlight]

Won't be long before it gets dark at 6pm

[Psychobilly]

Sunset is 6.00pm in Cardiff on 23-0ct-2009 and then another wait till darkness... So no not long to wait really...only 4 months...not long on an astronomical or geological timescale....

[Theninjagecko]

More subs will defo help this alot. You can also try adjusting your elvels in phtooshop to give you better blacks.

[Aza]

I wouldnt say that has better blacks though.

A lot of the fainter stuff has been lost.

I would go for somewhere between the two.

With an RGB background level of around 20.

Ninja's reprocess has values of 0, while Bazza's original has levels around 40.

[Psychobilly]

I'll stick with Bazza's original interpretation as the other has clipped out all that feint nebulosity which some people tend to regard as being "noise" ....

Helix Nebula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nebs don't stop dead....

[Erwin Kats]

thats an nice image

[Deneb]

It's got a Spiritual feel to it, nice pic bloodhound31

[Imahumanbeing]

Brilliant picture Baz

All the best

Jamie

[ASIGN_Baz]

Thanks everyone!

Ever gett the feeling He is looking back at us?

I agree, that nebulae don't stop dead. I often prefer to leave the blacks a little lighter in favor of keeping the fainter nebulosity.

As I said, even I am not satisfied with this yet. Another three hours of longer subs at least, should do this very faint DSO justice.

Baz.

[Catanonia]

Lovely picture dude, so much patience with that one