M42 in Hubble Palette Narrowband from EMS 4 and other night

[Allan the Plumber]

Has taken me a month since EMS 4 to get the SII data need to complete

 

Have used narrowband filters Ha SII and OIII and processed as per Hubble Palette with " Bob Franke's " colouring tutorial  

 

9 Hrs total datta

1hr at 60's Ha

1Hr at 600's Ha Mixed and faded together to produce 1 Ha master

4hr 10m SII

3Hr 20m OIII

 

GT81 and Atik 460ex Astrodon 5nm filters

DSS and CS6 processing 

 

Hope you like 

M42 HaSIIOIIIHpBob Franke by Allan Young-Hares, on Flickr

[Doc]

WOW.

 

I love it. I don't normally do colour but this feels very natural to me.

 

I love the feel of depth within the nebula.

 

Awesome stuff Allan.

[BAZ]

It looks good that, I like the more subtle colours, it seems to give it depth. Great image Allan.

[Tweedledee]

Yes that is superb Alan 

 

I see you've put a lot of effort into that both at EMS4 and afterwards. So much fine detail.

[Sheila]

nice work  

[Allan the Plumber]

3 minutes ago, Sheila said:

nice work  

Thanks nice to know I'm slowly getting there with my kit

Thanks guys most of the data I got from EMS 4 so I was doing something in that tent 

took a whole 30 days before I got a clear night to finish off 

[Daz Type-R]

@Allan the Plumber that is fantastic matey - bet your really happy with that, the depth of colour is fantastic.

 

[Guest VikN46]

Excellent! Love the detail and the colouring :)

[+RonC]

Good work Allan, looks brilliant! Can I make one comment though, isn't it upside down??

 

Cheers

Ron

[Guest Eddy]

Wow that's a cracker, as Mick says, a lot of depth in it.

[+Bino-viewer]

Beautiful Alan.

Picture of the month for me....

[Allan the Plumber]

10 hours ago, Ron Clarke said:

Good work Allan, looks brilliant! Can I make one comment though, isn't it upside down??

 

Cheers

Ron

I know Ron looked better this way round lol is there an up in space 

 

[red dwalf]

nice job Allan, i`d be tempted to process it in rgb too, don`t know why but some hubble pallet images don`t do it for me but others images look amazing,

were the 60 second ha subs for the core ? i`ve been doing 5 seconds for the core and it`s almost too long but i can make out the 4 stars at the center.

[Stephen]

What a great image Alan I like the detail

[Allan the Plumber]

1 hour ago, red dwalf said:

nice job Allan, i`d be tempted to process it in rgb too, don`t know why but some hubble pallet images don`t do it for me but others images look amazing,

were the 60 second ha subs for the core ? i`ve been doing 5 seconds for the core and it`s almost too long but i can make out the 4 stars at the center.

Thanks Rob know what you mean about certain images and colour but in these light polluted skies you've got to go for the Narrowband each time, guess I could of used RGB as i shot most of this at EMS 4 and used the Ha as Lum

 

All i did with the 60s and 600s Ha was mix them together then added the SII and OIII as normal only thing was I used a layer mask which I added towards the end to stop the core being blown out too much 

 

 

[Smithysteve]

Nice job Allan, lovely picture, all your hours of effort have payed off with knobs on! ? The detail is stunning!

It always seems a bit strange to me to see M42 in such colour, I am used to only seeing it in grey usually, it is one of my most favourite objects to look at.

cheers!

[Johnnyaardvark]

Wonderful image Allan. Love the colours and detail.

 

Steve