The first version of this image went a bit off with the processing so I redid it.
This is the first image I have done using PixInsight almost exclusively. Its been an interesting learning curve and I am warming to PI quite a bit. It certainly has some great tools and the thing about PI is the tools are the latest and greatest for that particular tool whereas Photoshop has stagnated a bit.
CCDstack would not do an accurate registration of the original images (its not particularly DSLR friendly). That threw a lot off.
PI did a great job.
This is the look I was trying to show in the original image. I find it a very dramatic image and shows the turbulence and drama of the centre of our Galaxy and also has dark and brooding the Pipe Stem Nebula is.
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/161651557/large
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...51557/original larger size
Greg.