PIER-05 Gas and Dust Around Iris Nebula - NGC 7023

Re-processed with a lower brightness on the IRIS Nebula.

Let me know which one you prefer.

Excellent work. You have made the dust very visible, show a lot of details and the image has a very good contrast.

I think I need to rework my image again. I have not been able to make the dust as visible as you have.

In your image I would try to remove the blue gradient on the right side and try to give the dust more color.

For comparison, this is my version.

Regards
Darius

I do like the Iris, its like a bright gem lost in a muddy pool :)

Nice images both

Excellent work. You have made the dust very visible, show a lot of details and the image has a very good contrast.

I think I need to rework my image again. I have not been able to make the dust as visible as you have.

In your image I would try to remove the blue gradient on the right side and try to give the dust more color.

For comparison, this is my version.

Regards
Darius

Yes, I do like your version. Warmer dust colours and a better blue in the Iris Nebula.

I found that the blue cast on the right appeared whenever I stretched the image enough to see all the features of the dust clouds. How should I handle it? I guess I could make a blue colour mask and remove the nebula. That should allow me to tone down the blue in that area.

I think one of the problems with any colour cast in these images of dust and dark nebulae is that it is so mixed up with the rest of the background that it is hard to determine what is real and what is an artefact. Tools like DBE and ABE in Pixinsight get confused when there is no definitive background level.

Did you have a problem with a colour cast, and if so how did you treat it?

Thanks

old_eyes

Excellent work. You have made the dust very visible, show a lot of details and the image has a very good contrast.

I think I need to rework my image again. I have not been able to make the dust as visible as you have.

In your image I would try to remove the blue gradient on the right side and try to give the dust more color.

For comparison, this is my version.

Regards
Darius

I created a colour mask for blue, limited it to the right-hand side of the image and adjusted the blue channel down slightly whilst boosting saturation overall. I think this is about the best I can do for the moment.

Excellent work. You have made the dust very visible, show a lot of details and the image has a very good contrast.

I think I need to rework my image again. I have not been able to make the dust as visible as you have.

In your image I would try to remove the blue gradient on the right side and try to give the dust more color.

For comparison, this is my version.

Regards
Darius

I created a colour mask for blue, limited it to the right-hand side of the image and adjusted the blue channel down slightly whilst boosting saturation overall. I think this is about the best I can do for the moment.

A really very impressive result. I like the colors better now and the blue gradient is also not so strong anymore. Regarding your question: I had no problems with a blue gradient. I stacked the image with AstroPixelProcessor and then used the light pollution tool. Finally, I post-processed the image with Photoshop.

Regards

Darius