M8 Lagoon Reprocessed.

[AdamJL]

Hi all

With the weather being as it is, I decided to try and do some reprocessing of older data.

Here's the Lagoon, reprocessed using the EZ Suite and a few masks techniques in PI. Also used was StarXTerminator which is really rather fantastic!

2600MC + L-Extreme

It might need a bit more work, but it's late and way past my bedtime (what a rubbish astro-photographer, hey? ;))

Slightly bigger and less compressed version here (https://adamlawler.smugmug.com/Astrophotography/Deep-Sky-Objects/i-w4SB7QM/A)

Cheers

[PKay]

Hi Adam

I have also started to use EZ Suite.
Earlier I made a remark 'not sure it is easy', but it does work (mostly).
I think the 'denoise' is very very good (linear images).

Have no idea about StarX so can't comment.

And '...you get to sleep? Save that for the next life :)

Good effort :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

That looks pretty good Adam. If you were using Photoshop I would recommend a bit of shadows/highlights tool to further tame the bright central area and bring out more detail.

If you are using PI then I am not sure which process handles that.

Greg.

[AdamJL]

Thanks Peter

It's a great suite indeed! The noise reduction is phenomenal, as you say. It'd be nice if it worked on non-linear images as well.





Thank you, Greg.
I woke up the next morning looking at this image again, and yes, definitely blown out in the core. I shouldn't edit when tired :D

Aim was to practise and try and get a less "L-Extreme" colour balance out of L-Extreme data. Not a fan of the colours that filter gives out of the box, so trying to learn how to map things a little better.

Thank you for the comment, I'll take it into Photoshop later and bring back the core.