[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Marco,

What an amazing photo!

Such amazing detail and beautiful colours.

I love the scattered red areas.

Thanks.

Ross.

Thanks Ross!

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Marco
you've certainly revealed structure at the core of M31 not often seen.
Good work.

BTW, CS5 has a newish feature called HDR which can treat an image that has a high dyanamic range, and reveal structure right down to the core.....with the right 'custom' settings of course.

Martin

Thanks Martin. I know the HDR function of CS5 but believe me, here we are talking to a completely other level of function, try it to believe

Originally Posted by Octane

Awesome work, my man.

Makes me realise the colour balance in mine is all wrong. I've been capturing some hydrogen alpha, and, will be adding that to mine and do a proper job of processing it.

And, yes, PixInsight is tres uber awesome. http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....es/happy04.gif

H

Thanks H!

Originally Posted by jase

Very nice work Marco. A great comparison showing off some cool features of PI. Have to say, one thing that bugs me with PI is that of FITS data movement from CCDStack to PI, it seemsto flip image orientation. Its as though PI reads the format differently...anway I digress. Excellent image. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thanks Jase, I also noticed the same thing, all fits opened (and saved) by Pixinsight are flipped. I believe this is perhaps a bug of the routine they use, however it is not a big deal, perhaps nobody ever had them noticing it..

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a stunner. My only comment is the Ha areas are too candy coloured and look out of whack with the relative colour of the rest of the image,they seem overemphasised. Just my personal taste. A sensational image and I can see the unique high dynamic range nature of the image you mention you achieved using Pixinsight.

A massive improvement over the original.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I have just corrected the Ha color reducing the saturation and a bit the balance. I also believe the former pest had the wrong coloro profile attached. Can you please check if now colors look more natural?

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Marco, very nice image and the colour saturation is pretty good. Like Greg I think the Ha areas are a little too pink magenta. Other than that it is a lovely image. One I would love to have myself.

Thanks Paul, as per Greg please check if the new version at the link at top is correctly balanced (otherwise it is a problem of my monitor..)

Originally Posted by iceman

Beautiful image! I agree with Greg about the red areas - seem overly pink, but a stunning view!

Thanks Mike!

Thanks
Marco