Key Hole, more processing.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Cold wet rainy day, a good time to spend more time processing.
I've cropped and change colour saturations, also a little more smoothing.

Here's the link to my original. http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment_browse.php?a=142107

Hopefully an improvement.

Equipment.

ED 80, ED 2 x barlow, baader fringe killer.
HEQ pro 5 mount. Orion mini guider.

Unmodded canon 1100D,

5 and 8 minute subs at ISO 1600 117 minutes, darks and flat frames applied.

Median stack in DSS, processed in PS7.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Stevec35]

The colour on this one definitely looks better Justin. You could probably tighten the contrast up a bit though.

Cheers

Steve

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Cheers Steve!

Thanks for your input!

Justin.

[Ross G]

I like the colours Justin.

Very smooth.

Ross.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Ross!

Cheers,

Justin.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi,

Last go at processing this beasty, a little more contrast added and backed off on the levels.
Starting get noisy though.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Elio]

Great image for poor integration (117' understood?) :eyepop:

Try to make bright stars smaller, in first version do not have halo around :)

I suggest to try Iris software for stacking and preprocessing, I had a great surplus with it, with DSS my raw (60D) are unusable :rolleyes:

Looks this M45 image,

before
http://www.astrobin.com/1964/0/

and then...
http://www.astrobin.com/1964/B/

thanks for share, anyway!

clear skies
Elio

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Elio,

I have Iris but have not used it much. I convert my images to tiffs for processing in DSS.
The beta version works ok on canon raw, but I find the tiff's easier.

Cheers,

JUstin.

[Elio]

Good news on beta...ok, you can try to apply a logarithmic stretch with asinh function of Iris, after DSS work, you can keep stars safely ;)

A beautiful image, however!

[David Fitz-Henr]

Nice image Justin; an improvement on the original. Maybe a little more sharpening would help some of the detail (in the brighter regions only to avoid increasing the noise).

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Elio and David!

Cheers,

Justin.