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Originally Posted by Slawomir
It is a really nice image, colours are well balanced and detail is very good. Maybe more Luminance (more subs) would help to make the galaxy stand out more?
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Cheers mate! I think it was actually a bit too green. I'm not sure why, but after brightening it up a bit balancing the colours better (I think?) seems to give me a more red/magenta look than others I've seen. Maybe I've been looking at it too long and I've just stuffed the colour up though lol.
I've got a reasonable about of lum in this one (more always helps though) but the tricky part is not bloating the stars while trying to extract the galaxy. I think I just need to get better at processing more than extra data at this point.
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Originally Posted by AlexN
Nice one. I attempted this one years ago from my little spot in suburbia with a 4" apo and my results were abysmal by comparison. It's a tough nut to crack but I think you've done well here. I agree more data in lum will help and a touch of ha blended in never hurts.
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Thanks Alex! Yeah it was definitely more challenging than I expected given the stats I saw on it before I tried it. I'm fortunate enough to have pretty dark skies here (bortle 3 I estimate). I tried one sub on a night with the moon up and very quickly shelved the idea of getting any more data without a totally moonless sky. I don't think I'd even try in suburban skies.
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Originally Posted by Rex
That's an excellent image Lee. Looks a little dark on my screen but there is quite a lot of detail visible, and I really like the colours. I can't help with the Ms processing as that is one PIS tool that I just cant figure out. Can'twait to see the final version if you end up taking more subs.
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Thanks Rex! You're right, definitely dark. I've now given up on trying to keep the stars under control and reprocessed it to bring out the galaxy more so I think it's a bit better now... well, I hope so :-)
I'll update the OP with the new version in a sec, but it's on Astrobin already.