Trifid Poll

[Rod771]

Hi Everyone.

OK its a repo of last years data buuut I thought I'd make it a bit of fun by including a poll.

Going over the original (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=122686) I can see I have choked the stars and background detail a bit. With a little extra experience using PI's DBE tool, I was confident I could illustrate the faint background details and breath a bit life back into the stars with a reprocessed image.

I have produced two versions and as always :rolleyes: I cant decide which to hang on the wall. If you would like to help me out by participating in the poll, it would be greatly appreciated. No need to comment but you can if you like.

OK, image one has brighter background and image two has a darker background (however, it still brighter than the original).

Image details: 50 x 300 sec subs - 4.2 hours. C11 Edge HD with .7x focal reducer (FL 1960mm) Canon 60Da. Taken June 22 and 26 2014

Large image - Bright background (http://astrob.in/full/161033/0/)

Large image - Dark background (http://astrob.in/full/161032/0/)

Thanks for looking and for voting (if you did) :)

Cheers

Rod

[Andy01]

#2 for me, better contrast and more dynamic range :)

[Rod771]

Thanks Andy! Gee your quick, you beat me to it while I was posting the poll options :)

[alpal]

Hi Rod,
great image - well done.

I like the one with the bright background but why not combine the the 2 pics
in Photoshop & blend the one with more contrast in the red nebula with the
lighter background that's not in the nebula?

cheers
Allan

[Alchemy]

I'm going for the bright one, given I'm using an iPad ( probably not the best way to view it) I can't see the histogram, so as long as you've set your black and white points and it's not clipped that's all good.
The triffid gets imaged so often that I wonder if it's not a case of that's how everyone does it so that's what's expected... Ie darker.
If there's detail there..... Bring it out and show it :)

[Camelopardalis]

I'm liking the faint background nebulosity :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Me too. You lose some of that in the darker version. How can I vote for a hybrid? :)

[jenchris]

#2 for me.
I think it has more depth visually.

[gregbradley]

The darker background. Part of it is its taken away some of the excess green that is in the image. Excess green is common in astroimages and throws off the colour balance. PI has a tool to remove it.

Greg.

[Stefan Buda]

I also prefer the darker one but a blend of the two would be even better.

[multiweb]

I like the light background. It's not noisy so why not push it. It looks good. I disagree with the green comments. Brown dust on top of blue reflection nebulae will always "look" green but they're not green as such. The brain always changes color perception when two colours are next to each other. All those green removal plugins tend to make photos look like red/blue and brown monochromatic palettes. They all end up looking the same.

[PeterEde]

no 1. why waste the data you've got?

[rustigsmed]

Hi,

I voted for the first one. Nice to bring out the dusty stuff if you can - I reckon.

cheers

[Rod771]

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! :) It has been most helpful. :thumbsup:

Cheers

Rod

[SpaceNoob]

I vote the brighter one because there's more of the actual detail there, that said I tend to like having less clipped images. I think good flats help with the outer field variance allowing the data to be left less clipped to hide any imperfections with illumination?