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Hi everyone! I just shot the veil complex from Los Angeles, CA (West Hollywood, specifically- Bortle 9!) with my redcat and would love some feedback  https://www.astrobin.com/scigii/?utm_source=astrobin&&utm_medium=email&&utm_campaign=notification&&from_user=26940 |
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The bright lights of Hollywood seem to be no match for those Chroma filters. I have only tried the Veil once with a DSLR and have not revisited. This is a fantastic image of a challenging region. I like that you maintained a lot of the star field with enough reduction that they don't obscure the target. I do see a couple of trailing stars in the upper left and lower right (nothing to the level I end up with on my RC). Should be able to crop them off w/o effecting your composition. Good job. Inspires me to reshoot this maybe next summer. |
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Looks great to me Alex, congratulations. Personally I like that you managed to process both a rich and deep starfield and have the target pop at the same time. The starfield looks great and doesn't overwhelm the veil. Nice bit of the faint stuff captured too. |
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| I would go for a more conservative approach to sharpening, especially with the stars. It's very tempting to see all of the details in the Veil and get thirsty for more, hence a tendency to over-sharpen. |
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Alex, wow, what a spectacular image. I really salute you on 40 hours of integration. I image from Bortle 9 as well. I appreciate your challenges. As far as "constructive" criticism: Not much to say other than 3 points: 1) the image could use some SII data. I seems to be missing a bit of something. I realize that the SII is the faintest of the signals, but at 40 hours of integration, it will show up. 2) the color is a bit off. I find the red for Ha and the dark navy blue for the OII a bit "unnatural". I would go toward the color palette you had on your elephant trunk or your California nebula. They feel more natural. 3) contrast a bit too much. Makes the image a bit stark. I would soften it up a bit. That being said, I can only aspire to achieve your level of proficiency. Kudos. I guess it gives me something to aim for. Francois |
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I would go for a more conservative approach to sharpening, especially with the stars. It's very tempting to see all of the details in the Veil and get thirsty for more, hence a tendency to over-sharpen. I do think I probably overdid it on blurX but it is just such a great tool! I’ll try to tone it down in the next process version |
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I think it looks good, maybe the red is a bit orange but I honestly don't mind. I think it's pleasing to look at. If I were to nitpick I would say perhaps the stars are stretched a bit too far and have some miscoloring, not perfectly round in the edges. But that is nitpicking. I find this target challening as well. The nebula comes out so sharp on it's own so when my team recently did this we had to dial back a lot, especially when it comes to bxt which we barely touched tbh. |
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| It looks very good, it looks very decent. Did you take calibration frames? |
