Thread: eta carina
View Single Post
  #4  
Old 18-06-2010, 08:29 AM
rcheshire's Avatar
rcheshire (Rowland)
Registered User

rcheshire is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Geelong
Posts: 2,617
Just for interest sake - a different frame - same camera and lens on a double arm drive. There is lots of colour to extract - within limits. Tried to increase the green channel - too blue in the core of the nebula - but the left hand edge background is becoming saturated - not to mention that chromatic aberration is really bad.

Should add that this and the image below are not single frames. They are stacks of 6 or so RAW files.

For the Linux geeks! Damn good fun!

Used 'ufraw', 'align_image_stack', 'enfuse', 'hdrgen' (pfstools), pfscalibrate and a combination of mantiuk and ashkimin tone mapping algorithms. A borrowed script that converts to 16 bit TIFF files. Regardless, display is in LDR anyway.

The fattal is a contour mapping algorithm and is quite effective bringing out detail. The ashkimin is a good blending option, used with the cone and rod mapping option.
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (pfs_pregamma_1_pattanaik00_mul_1_autolum1.jpg)
197.6 KB23 views

Last edited by rcheshire; 24-06-2010 at 05:48 AM.
Reply With Quote