I spent some more time imaging M16 while I was out in Hawaii. I have played with the resulting image in PixInsight, using a process to create a ‘Hubble Palette’ version that emphasizes the Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III regions of the nebula. The result isn’t too bad for a first attempt. Blue areas are rich in Oxygen and red is predominantly Hydrogen.
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Just thinking about the dimensions of that nebula makes my head hurt. Space is incredible.
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Another shot of the “Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula (M16). This is still a work in progress and I have cropped out more of the image than I would like, but the calibration frames are giving me a hard time. This is looking promising though. This one was taken over two nights with my main rig.
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fantastic shots as always… have you ever looked at the horse head nebula
EDIT just scrolled back through this post and i am an idiot
It’s getting to be a long thread!
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I solved a problem I was having with the flat frames, and the image looks much better now. I’m still going to play with the colors to produce a Hubble Pallette vertion ,but I think this one looks quite natural, which I kind of prefer.
and finally (I promise)… this is closer to what you would capture without using filters.
Which of the two do you guys prefer?
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The top one for me. Can’t explain why though. Incredible work, Paul!
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No. Please keep them coming 
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Same.
I’m enjoying all your pictures. 
I will also go with the first one 
beautiful picture
It seems we have a consensus. I’m really quite happy with this one, to the point where I think it would be worth getting it printed on metal or glass. I might bump up the saturation a little on the first one and see how it turns out.
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they both look incredible!
for me the first one looks too natural.
the second one though looks more spacey or sci-fi if you will. like the gasses are more pronounced with the brighter lively colours.
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I played around with it just a little more (even though I promised not to) and came up with this… and I just pulled the trigger to get a metal print of it. We will see how it comes out. I went with a 10x20inch print. Hopefully it will come out nicely and not too washed out.
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That is oustanding… I would like to see a photo of the print you ordered.
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I’ll post a photo when it gets here. 
With my bad influencer hat on, ZWO is having a sale that started yesterday. It includes a discount on the Seestar. In the US it seems to be $50 off the usual price, so it might be a good time to pick one up. The sale price over here is $450.
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with telescope?
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perfect 
My favorite of the group. Wow!
My metal print arrived yesterday…
It came out quite nicely, although there are a couple of things that I will do differently next time.
I will go for a matte finish rather than gloss. Also I will bump up the brightness and color saturation a little bit on the image I upload to the printer’s website.
Even so, I really like the result. I ended up hanging it in my ‘offfice’ .
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