Reprocessed Triffid and Lagoon

[Buddman]

Hi all,

I was mucking around with a friend taking shots through a Celestron 8 inch SCT last night and stumbled upon a different way of processing. I went back to some earlier images that we took through an ED80. Not sure of it's technical merits but so far I like the look of the final images.

Forgot to mention that the first image is the old version and the second one is the new version.
What do people think?:)

Adam

[AlexN]

color seems a bit off on M8, but everything else appears to be right on the money... focus, detail, depth.. all very nice indeed.

Great images Adam

[Buddman]

Thanks Alex, yeah I might have pushed the saturation a bit too far in M8.

[leon]

Adam, you seem to have the detail in your images, but i think you have over processed them a bit,don't worry I did the same for ages.

Having said that, it seems that you are quite capable of capturing the objects, so give plenty of time to the extracting of the data you have captured, just MHO.

Leon

[Buddman]

Thanks Leon, I'm pretty happy with getting the shots at the moment. I reprocessed the images in about 5 minutes.

I am a High School Science teacher and I'm trying to find a student friendly (lazy and fast) way for them to do thier own processing. I agree that plenty of time is the best solution.

Adam

[AlexN]

I tend to rush out all my images too... My planetary images so far have been captured, processed and posted on here within 4 hours.. Im sure more careful processing would see them come out better...

[gregbradley]

The first Triffid seems better to me than the 2nd and the 2nd Lagoon seems way better than the first.

The colour in the 2nd Lagoon looks spot on to me. There is a bit of blue reflection nebula that sorrounds the Lagoon. And the Lagoon has some H Beta which is magenta-ish.

Greg.