And another SSP Image - Centre of IC1805 Heart Nebula

[RichieJarvis]

Another one - again, I was only able to capture Ha data, because the cloud gods were mean - more data required, but I wanted to post my pure Salisbury Star Party images.

The diffraction spikes are false - put in the hide a few larger nasty shaped stars

Black and White Image:

False Colour Image:

Full details here: IC1805 Page

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,

Richie

[Aza]

Nice one

I think this is going to be my next project.

[Tim]

People LUURVE the spikes, I noticed that while showing a few pics to visitors on saturday, makes them look like "real stars"!!!

I see that technique you showed me has enhanced this to great effect, i cant wait to try it on some images. I'm actually looking forward to a few cloudy nights!

Nice one Rich

[Starflyer]

Another cracker Richie.

[ollypenrice]

I missed these, Richie. Gorgeous! How did you do the false colour? It's the best I've seen.

Olly

[adamsp123]

Richie, they are stunningly good, so much detail you captured, nice!!

Pete

[brendant]

Stunning images Richie, missed them too. Agree with Olly the false colour image is fantastic, loads of contrast, certainly brings it to life. Great work.

Brendan

[RichieJarvis]

Thanks guys

To get the false colour, I just played with the Curves in different channels till I had a result I liked.

[Psychobilly]

Nice images RJ certainly made use of the SSP skies......Is there a hint of colour in the diffraction spikes on the mono image ?

Peter...

[steppenwolf]

Well done on this one Richie, the false colour version is very nicely done. To get the base colour, did you use NC's false colour tool or did you convert to RGB and use the hue/saturation tools to set the ball rolling?

[RichieJarvis]

Thanks

Nope - I converted from Mono to RGB mode, duplicated the luminance and assigned to Blend mode 'Colour', and then just adjusted the levels of each RGB channel separately on the Colour data. No Hue/Saturate I'm afraid

A hint of colour in the spikes - hmmm - not sure how that happened Peter!

Cheers,

Richie

[ollypenrice]

Damnably ingenious!

Olly

[Psychobilly]

The Mono image is RGB not Grayscale so Noels tools have added the Color to the difraction spikes maybe....

[Guest AstroNerd]

Love how the stars have the lines through them