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Originally Posted by Retrograde
That looks pretty good Rusty.
If you look at some of the deep images of the Helix it does seem that one side of the outer shell is brighter than the other so maybe you just need more data to bring it out?
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Thanks retrograde - yes I had a quick search of DSLR helix images and found Richard's superb 20 hour pic. he did 10 min subs at iso 1600 and just managed some faint colour on the otherside. Im guessing perhaps a filter and longer exposure still might be needed. so that's ok i'll work on smoothing out what I have (and doing something about the stars - Richards were way smaller
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Originally Posted by raymo
Very nice; knocks my efforts into a cocked hat, as the old
saying goes.
raymo
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cheers raymo, don't be so hard on yourself i doubt there would be any better versions out there with the same amount of data collected and with 60 second subs! this is probably my fifth go at processing the helix - the other versions were promptly deleted after many frustrating hours at the laptop!
also I have been reading a few photoshop tutorials on gradient removal which makes a huge difference - the helix can benefit greatly from doing this. i had tried a few methods which removed the gradient but black clipped it to buggery. i'll see if i can find the most useful one i found (and used for this version) and link it for you.
cheers
rusty