Images for October

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-s-pics/p10472-the-heart-nebula-cent.html

Hi all,
Here is my first of three images for October, the Heart Nebula, but just the center part.

This is another experiment with sythetic luminance and RGB subs only. 34 x 10 minutes for each color were taken.

I have found some new techniques using layers and masks that help bring out details in the color regions. What do you think of the effect?

You comments on how this worked would be appreciated.

Be sure to click on the image in the link to see the higher res 1/2 scale image. The gallery uses compression causing artifacts in the smaller photo.
Floyd

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Very Nice! I'm so glad someone is doing some imaging.
I was out last night, but after 2 hours the clouds rolled in - AGAIN - ARRRRG!

Rolando

Very nice! Great details ans subtle yellow-brown colors in dusty regions.

Ecellent image, Floyd. You've got a lot of detail there.

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-s-pics/p10478-the-soul-nebula-cente.html

Here is the second of the images for this month. This is the central region of the Soul Nebula.
R-G-B were each 18 x 10 minute subs.

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Hi Floyd,

Very nice! Great detail! It looks almost like you shot H-alpha data!

Eric

Hi Floyd, Another beautiful image...Regards, Dave

Two nice images Floyd! Looking good. That synthetic luminance technique seems to work well.
Cheers,
Tyler