Milky Way Core Region

[nebulosity.]

From subs captured last year, had great fun carrying out various new (for me) processing techniques and using LRGB style processing with DSLR data. I think I had some success.

Large version Here. (http://astrob.in/144867/0/)

Thanks for looking,
Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher]

WOW! That's incredible Jo!

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Kevin, it's hard to do justice to the Milky
Way's awsomeness. :thumbsup:

Cheers
Jo

[multiweb]

Superb result Jo. One of the best I've seen. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[nebulosity.]

Wow thanks Marc, glad you liked it!

I also have a larger version of this mosaic that extends all the way to the Southern Cross. See Here.
(http://astrob.in/91387/C/)
Cheers
Jo

[Craige]

Nice one Jo! That's brilliant.

[dylan_odonnell]

Nicely done! Did you use this lonely speck tutorial they released recently? Looks really great.

http://www.lonelyspeck.com/photographing-and-processing-the-constellation-orion-astrophotography-image-stacking-and-lrgb-processing/

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[nebulosity.]

Thanks Craige!



No I hadn't seen that yet, thanks for the link I'll have a read.

Cheers
Jo

[raymo]

Great image Jo. I just watched the aforementioned tutorial, but
everything happened at least five times too fast for me to have
any hope of following what was going on.
raymo

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Ray, I will have to give it a watch.

Cheers
Jo

[iceman]

Great image, love it.

[nebulosity.]

Thanks so much Mike, stoked to have you comment :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Jo :D

[strongmanmike]

Yeah wow, you're pretty good at this MW mozaic/panorama business huh? :thumbsup:

Axel Melinger (http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/krpano/)here we come....

Mike

[LightningNZ]

Superb work Jo - as always, a really classy image.

[rustigsmed]

gee whizz Jo, go easy on the beginners section!
awesome work and processing, did you have a link to the technique?
emu looks great too!

Rusty

[nebulosity.]

Thank you Mike, glad you liked it :thumbsup:

Jo

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Cam!



Thanks Russel, no I don't a specific link to what I'm doing but this one here gave me a lot of ideas http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/dslr_llrgb_tutorial.php

and this StarTools tut helped me figure out how to do it in StarTools http://www.startools.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=250

Pretty much what I do is process a B&W version to get the brightness, contrast, and details and then process the colour version (remove colour cast, do colour balance, fix up lens CA etc) and then I blend the two together and add saturation and tweaks.

cheers
Jo