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Old 05-02-2011, 10:00 AM
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A beautiful image Humi. Love it.

You have gotten your stars to look nice. But as Marcus pointed out there could be more of the Ha neb teased out and perhaps a bit more saturation in the neb colours (at least to my taste which is subjective of course). That is the cost of Ha as Luminance. It tends to wash things out and it also tends to make the Ha areas more pinkish again that is fine but is a taste thing also. There are a few schools of thought about how to blend in Ha. I have tended to take some from both plus a bit of my own. I also think the approach varies a bit from image to image. I am happy to PM you some approaches. My current view is Ha is a beast that needs to be reined in otherwise it dominates the image too much. Yours is nicely controlled from that viewpoint.

How did you combine your LRGB? That can make a fairly big difference to the image as well depending on how it is done.

Fabulous first light.

Greg.
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