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Originally Posted by Itchy
Hi Paul
I was having similar problems with my monitor. Although I tried various tools to calibrate it, it was still too dark. A different issue (gaming I think) prompted me to update my video card driver. Once I did that, my monitor's performance dramatically improved and I was able to succesfully calibrate it to see the fainter stuff.
Just a thought rather than throwing it out.
I don't really like LCD for astro images, but some of the new ones I have seen lately may change my mind.
Cheers
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Geeday Tony,
Yes your right it is my monitor calibration. I usually have my brightness level of the monitor set to 35% and my contrast set to 75%. I then found this link
http://pages.prodigy.net/ecmorris/tips/monitor.htm and adjusted my monitor accordingly. To my surprise this meant adjusting the brightness level to 67% (from 35%), and then I could see the bands in the Galaxy image, just like on my LCD display.
Yes I agree, I don't really like astro images on LCD either.
No, I'm not going to throw out the monitor but I guess one needs to bear in mind that most people are probably using LCD monitors to view our images on IIS and so they may be seeing the image much differently than how we think.
Maybe we should setup up an IIS Monitor Calibration Page so that all viewers might see all images as intended by the photographers ?
Paul