Processing After stacking problems.

[Starcrazzy]

Hi All.

I managed to get about 50 minutes of reasonable subs (between clouds) of the horse in orion.
I am having a problem, the single subs have plenty of color, but after i stack them in Deep sky stacker, the color seems to disappear.
I know the data must still be there, but I can't coax any of it out.
I am using light room 3
Can anyone point me to a tutorial or give me a newbies tip on finding that colour.
See a single sub here of 4 minutes. Converted to Jpeg for upload here.I was in a rush and didn't have time to polar align properly and i think it left too much work for the auto guider as some drift is evident.

Any tips would be great.

Thanx

Andy

[Starcrazzy]

Sorry, heres what comes out of deep sky stacker.

[jjjnettie]

I'm not familiar with Lightroom at all. In CS3 I mainly use Curves to brighten/stretch the image. Using it multiple times, starting with quite large adjustments, finishing off with micro adjustments. Once the image is satisfactory, then I use Saturation to enhance the colour.

[CapturingTheNight]

Hi Andy,
This is a great video tutorial on how to do image processing http://youtu.be/BBQQ_Gs6YHM You will develop your own techniques as time goes on but this should get you started.
Hope it helps.
Greg

[rcheshire]

In Recommended Settings there's a link - Per Channel Background Calibration. There's a note relating to images that are too grey.

http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html

[Starcrazzy]

Thanx heaps guys. very useful. Apparently theres heaps of tutorials on youtube (who knew).:lol:

Anyway, heres a couple of my first shots with the DSLR. I know there is tracking issues but im working on it. im reasonably happy with my first 2 attempts.

Cheers

[scagman]

Hi Andy,

They look good, you have got some nice detail there. Well done.

[Starcrazzy]

Thanx mate, im leraning...slowly.. Its great fun...:thumbsup:...Next time the clouds disappear ill spend more time driftalligning and PEC train my Heq5 to try and get pinpoint stars. The orion pic below is 1 sub of 4 minutes, through my GSO 8" newt. The Horsehead is a stack of about 42 minutes worth of subs through my WOZS 80 mm refractor.

Cheers

[stardust steve]

nice captures there Starcrazy. I too have been trying my hand at processing and till just now after reading this post and a few others, i think i have taken a great step forward ( although im not too sure what i did ):lol: i will keep these settings. I like the images from your setup, im thinking i may eventually go with something similar like you have :thumbsup:

[Starcrazzy]

thats good to hear Steve. Ive been practicing on all the subs i have and i think i have the very basics down now. I have to admit, the refractor is much easier to handle and get reasonable images then the newt, so i plan to stick with it for the time being, and get some of the brighter neb's before I go back to the newt for the faint fuzzy's. I eventually hope to get some nice galaxies.

cheers