Cheers Andy. Yes the monitor/website seems to make some difference with hues and backgrounds. For my laptop I reduced the brilliance a bit (attached) and it looks great, but then on Astrobin it looks a bit dull... hmm. RGB stars soon I hope..
Cheers Rodney. Some colour noise reduction has been applied and the original colour tone map was quite noise reduced so hopefully that’s paid off a bit.
You must just about be sick of staring at this one by now Ben
The whole process is well worth it though and glad you kept us abreast of each iteration, been fun watching its development, it's like looking at baby-child photos as they slowly grow up and mature
You must just about be sick of staring at this one by now Ben
The whole process is well worth it though and glad you kept us abreast of each iteration, been fun watching its development, it's like looking at baby-child photos as they slowly grow up and mature
Mike
Almost there Mike, but on another forum someone did a starless version of my picture and it looked great. He used starnet++ so I thought I’d see how that compared to the Fabian Neyer method (I’ve used that a lot). So, my image has grown old, lost some of its youthful definition, picked up a few scars and is now starless. However I think it’s still got some character... https://www.astrobin.com/full/410558/G/?nc=user
As if I could leave it alone.... I added Lum and RGB stars back and got what really should be the last of these. A blueish gradient lives in the corner of the wider field but it looks a bit like the glow of this star. Crop I added a little more of the bluish hue. https://www.astrobin.com/full/410558/K/?nc=Brasspoodle
As I fall into the fires of Mount Doom I’m left still wondering about framing and pareidolia. Andy’s “Deep Space 9” 3D effect (loved that sound track at the time!) and your Cat playing with a lobster Mike all offer a way in to the complex image. I was pretty abstract in my framing. There’s probably a limit with how much one can zoom in on things but as something different I’ll leave all this fiddling with my distant misty mountain.
Well Benny...I recon this is aaalmost perfect the mountain area in the middle is awesome. The only thing not perfect is the stars, they are dull and washed out, stars are not dull, they are bright intense points. While you may feel it accentuates the nebula detail it is not natural nor does it look right IMO. I would suggest selecting the stars and brightening and increasing their intensity and then slightly sharpen them....then, the image will be done and dusted