I dont know how this is going to look but here it is anyway. I am working on a cheap View Sonic Monitor plugged into a laptop with a buggered monitor (only internet access I have at the moment) and it is calibrated to my laser printer output so who knows?. I have kept it (the image) pretty subtle with low colour saturation so it shouldnt look like a neon sign outside a bordello - If you could let me know if it appears the calibration is out a heap it would be appreciated - maybe even a tweak so I can match it here may bring this thing into line.
This is one of a mosaic I started at Leyburn Observatory over the weekend. Taken through a Televue np101is with a modded (thanks Eric) 350D. It is 8 x 15 minute subs and 3 x 30 minutes to get as deep as possible with a 4 inch f 5.4 scope. DSS, MaximDL Log Strech, Assorted CS2 including a Multi Layer Deconvolution Blend and High Pass Filter and background smoothing to try for some depth of field.
I know the colour above the horsehead is dodgy (pink) but it just saturates out when you expose long enough to get the brown faint dust cloud below it. Still working on it - but my aim isnt to get a bright red HII region but to bring out fainter dust clouds from here to M78. I have an idea for the final mosaic to make the HII red and the dust brownish.
Any advice re monitor calibration would be appreciated ( and you can rip this to pieces if you like too
) but it would be good to get the monitor somewhere approaching right.
Mark Bolton