Ha Ha,
Thanks Ivo for the tips....
I was joking about the course....I am not enrolled in one, I was simply pointing out how crap my processing skills are....
I know what you mean, the eagerness of overprocessing to reveal things which you can sort of see, leads you to killing the main part of the image to try and tease out the finer details, something which I need to reign in...
In JJJ's defense, she didnt have too much quality data to work with, and there was a LOT of vignetting from no flats and only one dark to work with, so to get what she has, means she needed to hit it with a pretty big stick as the subs had a lot of washed out areas, either from light pollution or noisy camera (1000D).
And, considering my blown out core in the cruddy one I tried to process, the end result is about 1500 light years (see what I did there???
) better than mine....
I appreciate all of the encouragement and tips and will continue playing with this data set as it is good practice to allow me to get to know the foibles and trickery and black magic of processing......until these clouds depart of course, then I am back out there with my sexy guiding newtonian.....yay!
Cheers
Chris