Another Centaurus A

[Exfso]

Seeing this is all the rage at present, decided to have a go at it.
This is 5x12mins at 800 iso. A bit of photoshop and cropped. Maybe overdone the processing a bit.

[dugnsuz]

I like it Pete - nice 'n smooth.
Doug

[desler]

Smooth as, I love it!

Darren

[spearo]

well done
frank

[CoolhandJo]

Nice colours.

[gregbradley]

Overall a very good Cent A. A bit magenta biased and you've used unsharp mask a bit hard. Sharpening is best done masked so the stars don't aren't affected only the galaxy. Or do a selection of the galaxy with lasso and feather it then apply unsharp mask.

Good to see an APO Cent A. APO images are always that bit more pleasing.

Greg.

[Lester]

Wonderful image Pete, and good to see you back in the saddle. All the best.

[jjjnettie]

Definitely a 3d look to that dust lane Peter. :)

[Exfso]

Greg, you are spot on, I am not real smart with using masking, and I really do need to come to terms with it. Thanks for the tips, all much appreciated.

[Rigel003]

Ripper shot, Pete. Heaps of fine detail in the middle. Well done!

[bloodhound31]

Very nice Pete!

[Hagar]

Very nice Pete. A bit of a magenta cast but your detail in the dust lane is superb.

Well done Mate. Good to see you imaging again. Is it November yet?

[mill]

Looking the goods mate :)
Very sharp with plenty of detail :thumbsup:
A bit blue on this monitor but ehhh who cares :P

[Exfso]

Thanks all. I have calibrated both my laptop and my desktop, the color looked pretty close on the lappy, but definitely Magenta-ish on the desktop.

Had another go at it as suggested by Greg. Hopefully stars arent messed up now and color is less magenta-ish.

[Paul Haese]

That last one is better Pete. Try some star saturation too. You maybe have to mask out the galaxy though.

[renormalised]

Nice shot Peter.....2nd shot looks a little better than the first (less magenta cast) but both are very good :)

[Exfso]

Tks guys. I find it hard to get color in stars with a DSLR, others manage to, but it seems to evade me. If the stars are saturated to start with which they are with a DSLR, how does one get color into them :shrug:

[marco]

Nice one Peter!. To recover the colors on the stars, select them with color selection > highlights, feather the selection anc copy/past as new layer, than reduce their curves to recover some "space" on the right part (high lights) and not having 255/255/255 (pure white) on all channels, than minimum filter (1 or 2 px), increase color saturation, gaussian blur (1 px) and voila', you have some color recovered.

Hope this help

Clear Skies
Marco

[mill]

Also to get star colour, you could take some shorter exposures and blend that stack in.
So if you take 10Min exposures then take some 2Min exposures.
It is like what you do with a mono camera.
Luminance 10Min RGB 200Sec.

[Exfso]

Thanks chaps...

[multiweb]

Lovely shot. I like the colors a lot. Really nice. :thumbsup:

[CarlJoseph]

I agree with all the comments so far. Beautiful shot. I really really really like it.

I just started imaging Cent A and I'll be using this as a benchmark for my own work.

Well done. :)

[TrevorW]

Very good effort, noice