IC443, the Jellyfish Nebula

[Comet Hunter]

about 14 1/2 hours of 5 min subs. I could not make up my mind which I liked better?

What's your opinion? THe bluish one or the gold one?

Goes to show you how slight processing changes can completely change the image.

 

[AlanLichty]

I like gazing into the scene in the blue version more than with the gold. The regions of space in the lower right portion of the frame are more fascinating dimensionality while the gold version in that area feels kind of flat.

 

[Mike Lewis]

I like the first best as it has better separation of signals/colors for me.

ML

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ed,

Very nice work!

I think the dark nebula show up best in #2, so that's a great feature for it. I think I do like #1 better. Have you played with changing the Hue of the Orange in #1 to be a little more Red? Not sure how that would look, but it's an idea that came to me while looking at it.

What filter did you use?

 

[Comet Hunter]

I used the l extreme . I tried using the Antilia alpt but it blew out lots of detail. I still have not figured out why it works with some targets like my horsehead while does poorly with others like the jellyfish and rosette? I will try to call Antilia and maybe Highpoint Scientific to see if I can get some technical support

 

[Todd H]

Very nice…

 

[JimFox]

I used the l extreme . I tried using the Antilia alpt but it blew out lots of detail. I still have not figured out why it works with some targets like my horsehead while does poorly with others like the jellyfish and rosette? I will try to call Antilia and maybe Highpoint Scientific to see if I can get some technical support

Yeah, it would be nice to know why. I will say on mine, that same rounded corner of the head of the Jellyfish I had to be super careful in stretching not to blow it out, and I still had to do a bit of work in Photoshop to recover those edges.

I think it's going to be a combination of the exposure time of the subs and the stretching. But it will be interesting to see if you can get an answer from them.