The Helix Nebula/Les Granges

[Fay]

This was 12x600 ha, 8x600 OIII. Again I have not got the colour mix right, will have to get to grips with it!

Atik314l, ED80, ha=L & Red, OIII= Blue & green

Processed in Astroart, PSCS

[SteveL]

another fine image, Fay...

[madjohn]

Great image on a difficult target, nice one!

John

[ollypenrice]

C'mon Fay, give yourself a break! That is really smooth and you have the faint 'extra' bit as well. Colours are pretty close to RGB, too.

I'd hit it with Noel's 'Enhance Local Contrast' myself and also try a version with Ha for red, O111 for green and half and half for blue. That gives a lovely result but just different. Don't hesitate to pull each colour channel around hard in Ps Curves. No rules in false colour imaging!

Great shot.

Olly

[Fay]

Thanks Olly, will try that. You are right, there are no rules.....

[robertm]

That's very nice Fay. I think you could possibly tease out some more of the dark stuff as your data looked very good.

Robert