New Image: monkey head nebula

[andrewsscope]

Hi all I took this image last night using my Skywatcher 80ed with the 585 camera.I did 1 hour of 2 minutes of each image and processed in DSS,Adobe s2, Graexpert and affinity.I thought I would share.Thanks for looking.

[Ylem]

Wow, that's amazing Andy!
Beautiful depth of field, love the stars in front.

[Thefatkitty]

That really pops out for me, lots of detail and color! Nicely done

All the best,

[AstroBee]

Nice image Andy. I'm willing to bet you lost a good bit of faint, wispy nebulosity in your attempt to make the background so black. The night sky really isn't that black. Nice colors on the nebula though.

[andrewsscope]

Nice image Andy. I'm willing to bet you lost a good bit of faint, wispy nebulosity in your attempt to make the background so black. The night sky really isn't that black. Nice colors on the nebula though.

Hi Astrobee,
Thanks for the advice on the background,I have altered in Google photos,I think I have a bit more nebulosity on the right edge.
Thanks
Andy

[StarHugger]

Great job Andy, one of my favorites !

[andrewsscope]

Great job Andy, one of my favorites !

Thanks is my first attempt with the Zwo 585 mc camera.

[AstroBee]

Nice image Andy. I'm willing to bet you lost a good bit of faint, wispy nebulosity in your attempt to make the background so black. The night sky really isn't that black. Nice colors on the nebula though.

Hi Astrobee,
Thanks for the advice on the background,I have altered in Google photos,I think I have a bit more nebulosity on the right edge.
Thanks
Andy

new6 (3)~4.jpg

To really bring it out, you would probably have to start the processing over from your DSS output. Once you have converted your image to jpeg for the website, you have lost much of that data. I'm not sure if that is what you have done here, just reprocessing the jpeg from above?

[andrewsscope]

Nice image Andy. I'm willing to bet you lost a good bit of faint, wispy nebulosity in your attempt to make the background so black. The night sky really isn't that black. Nice colors on the nebula though.

Hi Astrobee,
Thanks for the advice on the background,I have altered in Google photos,I think I have a bit more nebulosity on the right edge.
Thanks
Andy

new6 (3)~4.jpg

To really bring it out, you would probably have to start the processing over from your DSS output. Once you have converted your image to jpeg for the website, you have lost much of that data. I'm not sure if that is what you have done here, just reprocessing the jpeg from above?

Hi Astrobee
Yes I just did the jpeg that I had in my Google photos and ammended slightly,I will take a look at the autosave in DSS and see if I can pull the data from there again.
Thanks
Andy

[Adriano]

Nice image of the Monkey Head Nebula. Thanks for sharing.

[messier 111]

nice catch , thx .

[jthommes]

Wonderful image Andy! I like the improvement in the second version (improved background).