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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Hey Richi poo, forgot to comment on this image..?... 
Interesting piece of work, there is certainly some good detail present but the framing has me stumped  and I know your conditions wre not ideal but the stars still look just a little too blobby for so much Ha? Why not try shrinking the LRGB stars a tad before combining with the Ha?
Given your thin air time though congrats on actually getting some data together into a quite respectable image though 
MIke |
Hey Mike the man...
Yeah, had Eta just in with my lum and Ha, but my colour channels were way out.... as you can see by the finished composite. Didn't realise till finishing off the green channel.... don't ask, ok
As far as my combine method, well this is it in a nut shell...
With the Lum, hated the thickness of the refraction spikes on the larger stars from the spider as the evening was soft.... Ha had a great amount of contrast (as expected) but hated the lack of stars.... especially the smaller ones... in comparison, but the thickness of the spider refraction on the larger stars lin the Ha looked good and thin...sooooo, masked the stars from the lum, (bar the spikes) and added them to the Ha.... then using the same mask on the lum, inverted the image, removing any traces of spikes, just to add a little bit more of variation to the nebulosity in the Ha and layered the lum about 30- 40% to the new Ha image with the adjusted stars..
Thought this would save me using minimum to reduce the star size in both the Lum and RGB with aligning it to the Ha...
Was a bit of an experiment really and thought the end result wasn't too bad.
Just dealing with what i had to obtain the best I could with what I had...
mmm... words to that effect
Thanks for looking Migel....
BTW,, you got some nice filters there!
All the best
Rich