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Originally Posted by RB
I agree.....it seems a bit abrupt......  
Steve there's decent data in there and for 7 min it's got some potential I think.
The beauty is that we can always go back and tweak the levels etc and learn from each other and from our own mistakes.
Here I've taken the liberty to adjust the colour balance/saturation and apply some noise reduction.
Obviously it's a bit difficult working off a web jpg version but it's just to show what's possible by adjusting a few parameters in PS.
You can send me a PM if you like.
Anyway keep up the good work, we all travel this path and learn as we progress.
Looking forward to more from you.
Cheers
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Cheers Andrew,
Hi Andrew
Thanks for your comments and tweaking. This image started out as being a combo of different length exposures but I changed tack after doing the 60 second shots and slewed to M45 for something different before it went out of my line of sight .... then I'd had enough for the night and hit the sack. I tried stacking the rgb's and the core burned out ( as usual ) so I stacked the fits files which can be more tricky to process but generally keep stars tighter and reduce over exposure problems common with rgb files ... just posted the image for something to do really.
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Originally Posted by Matty P
For such a short exposures you have done a great job Steve. I think your original image is slightly too red though.
I think Andrew's colour balance is something that you aim for when processing again as the colours are more natural.
Is this a crop?
Well done. |
Thanks Matt, it is a square crop as there was a lot of surrounding noise due to the short exposures which the SBIG ST2000XCM doesn't like very much, it's a bit different to a DSLR ... not as forgiving.
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Originally Posted by leon
It is a pretty good effort Steve, maybe a bit of what the others said, but all in all a mighty fine result.
Leon |
Cheers Leon, thanks for your ever encouraging remarks mate !