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Old 04-11-2016, 03:07 PM
mikeyjames (Mick)
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Originally Posted by thegableguy View Post
Besides light pollution / lunar cycle etc, it's all about the processing. Even with my better than average skies and no Moon, my individual subs don't look like much at all - very washed out and you can barely tell there's a galaxy there... but after stacking a whole bunch of subs with darks flats etc the resultant TIF has a huge dynamic range, from which you can pull quite a lot of detail if you know how. (I only sort of know how! Need to get better at it.)
Thank you. I've had a bit of a play with PaintShop Pro this morning and did make some things look better. Photoshop has always seemed complicated but I guess I'll need to learn it for best results.
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