First Light at f3.9, Trifid-Lagoon.

[ollypenrice]

The Baby Q with reducer had its first light over the last couple of nights, getting this one n the can. LRGB, 2 hours and 30 mins per colour binned. Bad idea to bin colour in a field of tiny stars but the object is low and not available for too long. The RGB image needed a lot of work to get it presentable. Thank you Noel and your Actions.

Flickr Photo Download: M8,M20CBabyQreduced

Cheers,

Olly

[Psychobilly]

Thats so Nice...:headbang:

Extremely useful FOV with that setup ...

Again the sheer Quality of the setup and the processing shows through

Peter...

[daz]

Oi!!!

Can you send some of those clear skies over here please!!!

That's a stonking image Olly!

[Beyond_Vision]

Another superb image Olly very nicely captured and processed

Regards

Kevin

[roundycat]

Olly, I hope you don't mind me doing this but when I saw this picture two thoughts went through what passes for my brain; Wow! and it's a pity it has a green background. I stole it and reset the background green to a lower value and blue a bit higher. I chose a spot just to the left of centre and went for a fairly neutral colour. Both curves were anchored towards the top to prevent changes of colour at a higher brightness. I couldn't resist lassoing M20 and giving it a bit more blue.

This has the same framing that I have been after doing but now all the good stuff is going by I am hemmed in by clouds and fog.

Dennis

[albedo0.39]

It's incredible looking at that image... To think all that is up there waiting to be seen and captured (when the clouds part of course). Thanks for posting this image and I look forward to more of them in the future.

[ollypenrice]

Hi Dennis,

Feel free! The input is helpful. Like you I was aware of a greenish caste but I really wanted those Gendler-ish golden colours in the background sky. What a game, eh? My own attempts at less green/more red produuced artificial boundaries so I called a halt.

Right now I'm shooting Ha in the hope that a bit more red input will sort it and give more relief detail in the Lagoon as well.

When will it end??

Hope you get the weather soon.

Olly

[Tim]

Thats a beautiful region, and a great pic Olly. I do prefer Dennis' adjustment, looks a little more natural, albeit the colours are very much subjective.

Tim

[MartinB]

Fantastic image Olly and superbly framed.

[afm038]

Both are good images, preferences are simply down to the individual taste, mine being the one Dennis modified to darken the background.

Andy

[ncjunk]

Lovely image I like both versions!

Neil C

[ollypenrice]

Okay, here's a final (??) version with a big thanks to Dennis for two very useful critiques, the first to correct the green caste and the second to correct a flattening of the Lagoon after my first correction! Much appreciated.

What I'd still like to know, though, is how Gendler gets those golden tones in the sourthern Milky Way. Tom O'Donoghue had a similar problem with an excellent Snake Nebula he took here. It was a bit on the brown side rather than golden. Any ideas?

Flickr Photo Download: Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae

Olly

[roundycat]

I wonder if he cheats! It's a filthy business I know but I did it all the time when I first went digital with 'normal' photography. I didn't really do art at school, we just had paint wars but I did learn later that brown is really just a dark yellow. Yellow is gold with a bit less red - technical isn't it?

I still can't find the pictures you mention but I am sure I remember seeing one or two. I just selected a brownish bit of your picture and added some red and green to make yellow. A bit more red turns it a sort of yucky gold.

Dennis