Cosmic Postcards

[LewisM]

I went and reprocessed a bunch of M42 data back from when I had a VC200L (hence those diffraction spikes). I set the debayer WRONG, and it came out a horrid purple all over, and unfixable. Well, why not go grey scale, push it, tone it...

I kind of like it. Not bad for dud processed data, pushed to the extreme. Not that it matters, but it's about 45 minutes total, with an unmodded Canon 5D MkII.

[el_draco]

Actually, that kinda grows on me...:-)

[Regulus]

With the exception of the blowout in the middle that is a great 3D image.
Trev

[LewisM]

I am thinking about overlaying an underexposed to delineate the core.

Maybe later :)

[LewisM]

Core delineated :)

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

That's come up well Lewis!:thumbsup:

Great contrast in this image, really stands out!

Cheers,

Justin.

[multiweb]

Not bad at all. It has a xmas look. :thumbsup:

[LewisM]

Processed it through PI, with NO flats or darks - I couldn't find them!!! PI does such a fantastic stack routine, MUCH superior to DSS. Set the debayer to GRGB, which is obviously wrong. Then, I did a small ScreenTransfer stretch in PI, and did the rest in PS (I really don't like some of PI's routines still, but am learning them).

Thanks for the comments. I have even more crudy old data to at least "immortalise" in some way.