Five hours of Luminance - M 42

[batema]

Hi,

I have decided to have a red hot go at full callibration of Lights, Darks, Flats and Bias Frames on M42. I have taken 38x8 minute luminance 1x1 binning through a William Optics Flt 110 (I don't have a field flattener yet) and masked it with 30x10 second shots and 30x30 second shots. Camera is a QHY-9 Mono and I still have Blue to take but have 1 hour each colour at 2x2 binning.

Advice on how to improve my processing more than welcome.

Thanks.

Mark

[CoolhandJo]

Heaps of dust! Nice.

[bmitchell82]

You definately have alot of details in that little picture of yours.

In my opinion i think though you have sharpend it too far. Its really hard to give you advice about the core because blending in layers and dynamically introducing different subs in isn't just one of those things you click here here and here and shes done. It takes alot of finness. All i can say is look at Gassian blurring, Layer masks and also introduction of the same layer but just not streched then bring it upto suite.

A more subtle process with selective sharpening as so you draw the eye to places will give you that 3D feel while keeping the overall luster of the image, instead of sharpening the whole image which confuses the eye and is a bit over whealming to the viewer.

Brendan

[alan meehan]

Nice and sharp Mark i would be happy with that ,the processing looks fine to me only comment is your framing out a touch could have got bit more of the running man
AL

[scopemankit]

Stunning!

[mill]

Hi Mark as Brendan already said, too much sharpening, you can see black rings around the stars in M42 so go a bit easier on that.
For the rest it is looking good and i look forward to the color version.

[atalas]

Nice work Mark.

[jjjnettie]

:D So much dust, and that's exactly what you were going for eh.
Awesome Mark.

[Ross G]

Beautiful photo Mark.

Amazing detail.

Ross.