[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice one Col, the pillars are a favourite and I really like the colours you show here and you have some of the famous little details there too. While I actually like the look of slightly magenta stars sprinkled across NB mages, I do agree with Tim in this case, as they currently look a bit prominent, possibly some miss rego there too?

Mike

I agree! Some of them stars are really distracting! I just spent 15 minutes this afternoon having a play with one of my favourite regions to see how it would turn out. SO much better than my last attempt last year!

Will try to add some synthetic RGB stars when I go for a full process. I have did bias frames at the moment, they're suffering from some unwanted banding which is apparently caused by the settings I had and a conflict with the 128MB buffer on camera. Only effected my bias frames but that then kills my flats which then causes gradients I cannot remove

Originally Posted by willik

Very nice image not easy to process lot of detail
Martin

Thanks Willik, actually easier processing this little crop compared to the entire image; far smaller dynamic range to deal with.

Originally Posted by topheart

Hi Colin,

Very nice sharp pillars!

.....Very nice.

I'm not a fan of narrowband data pink stars, so my taste would be to remove them and use RGB star data or at least turn em white....??!!, but that's just me.

Well done.
I hope you can chase down the tilt problems you describe....can be a pain!
Cheers,
Tim

I'm not a huge fan of the magenta stars unless they're understated; like what Mike"(s) can achieve. Going to reprocess once I get my calibration frames sorted, really need to drizzle integrate it.

Some of the tilt is field curvature due to spacing issues. I thought there was going to be a 1mm difference between the QHY163 and ASI1600, something that can be compensated with the FLI PDF. Turns out to be a lot more than that with my current adapters.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Looks good to me Colin. Maybe this time next year I'll be doing something similar.

You're going to move away from your DSLR?