Moonlit crab

[philj]

I took this the other night through the Meade 127EDT using the Atik 314l. The moon was exceptionally bright but I wanted to practice my RGB a bit. Its 40 minutes each channel in 5 minute subs.

I tried combining with an Ha image I took last week but the image was so off centre from this one that an LRGB worked but the crop was not good. So Ill try again for the Ha and this time centre the object

Ive had a devil of a job taming the moon glow and its lost a bit of depth because of that but for a practice session Im quite pleased with it.

Anyway enough of the excuses here my attempt at M1 RGB in moonlight:D

Philj

Urghh that looks awful posted on here really blothchy, It looked OK before, honest. Ill try again

[philj]

Cropped the mess out and had another bash at the colours.

Philj

[Hawklord]

Got some nicely defined colour in there.

[Taff]

What a nice capture of M1.Nice colour and clear with you.Mark

[LukeSkywatcher]

Looks good to me.

[philj]

Thanks chaps. Getting to grips with RGB imaging is one thing but dealing with winter moonlight as well makes it a bit more difficult. Still it was nice to get a colour image instead of B+W Ha with a high bright moon.

Phil

[jnp]

Theres some great data in there and nicely resolved.

Hope you dont mind, but I couldn't resist a quick tweak with levels?

cheers

John

[Earl]

I do prefer the Green and red in your first image

[Boren]

All are good IMHO !!

[nightfisher]

nice image

[Cloudwatcher]

Cropped the mess out and had another bash at the colours.

Philj

I couldn't see any 'mess'..........

Darken the background,increase the saturation,sharpen a bit and you have a very nicely framed image with some good detail.