A beautiful flower but not as deadly

[TrevorW]

Triffid Nebula M20, 2hrs data in this one

and many tries trying to get a nice colour detail balance

I think I got it right but I'll leave it up to you guys to let me know

[TrevorW]

and not as bright

[Rigel003]

Nice image scale and good detail, Trevor, but probably need to tone down the blues a bit.

[TrevorW]

Thanks Graeme will do

[Paul Haese]

I agree with Graeme that the blues need toning down. I take it your looking to get more data anyway, so you could take care of it when you get that.

[Ross G]

Nice detail and composition Trevor.

Ross.

[TrevorW]

Thanks Paul and Ross, I toned down the blue a bit

[multiweb]

You've got some real good details in that shot but I think you may have pushed the data a little too hard. Do you flat field?

[TrevorW]

No flats Marc

Cheers

[multiweb]

Could be why you have a blue glow in the center. If you're game you could isolate the blue channel and get rid of the gradient. Easily fixed.

Here's the idea. You can do a way better job spending some time on it.

[TrevorW]

Cheers Marc will try, do you know what the channel mixer does in PS

[multiweb]

The channel mixer is a little tricky to use. You increase or decrease how much of a color can affect a channel R, G or B (i.e more red into the green or less blue into the red etc..). It's a great tool to mix or isolate colors and convert to monochrome. You might have seen this TV commercial of colour tiger running in a grey scale jungle. That's what it's for. But I don't use it in astro processing. Only maybe in some NB shots but I find curves and levels more intuitive for RGB.