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Originally Posted by alpal

You'd have to be very pleased with that result.
A high quality image with many pin sharp stars.
Well done with the processing.

Thanks Mate. Appreciate the feedback

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wow, that's a corker especially for your first image. Love the colour balance you achieved, perfect.

Only minor thing would be there is some red ringing around a lot of the stars.

I'd say try deconvolution on your S11 master and try to get the FWHM value on a few stars similar to the O111 and Ha.

Or easier, simply select the brighter stars (easiest way is use Noel Carboni action for this), expand it 1 or 2 pixels and feather 1 and use selective colour to pull back the reds.

Greg.

Thanks for advice Greg. I may use selective color with a mask. I already did use deconvolution on SII as well as selective color with reducing magenta, but might take it back a bit more. I dont mind a little bit of a ring as with none the stars just look white and a bit bland.

Originally Posted by Mighty_oz

That's a fantastic effort for a first go Got to love those FSQ's Nice framing as well.

Thanks. It was one of those I made sure to refocus every hour or so and the raw frames just looked good right off the bat.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Very nice indeed, just goes to show how quality equipment effectively provides good data, that coupled with good processing, can result in stunning images.

Appreciate the feedback. You are certainly spot on. Have a good camera matched to the scope makes such a difference. The STF-8300 and Tak FSQ106 are soulmates. Just meant to be.....

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Working on one similar in colour and tones and using Kens Map tutorial too. I really like your reds and blues together. I never thought I would like narrow band but some styles are clearly more to my tast than others.

Nice work Chris. What filters are you using by the way?

Thanks Paul. Took a bit of work to get color to a point I was happy. This time I took my own advice. Got it to where I thought it was good. then slept on it. looked at it and made quite a few adjustments the next day. Biggest tip I read was using selective color on Red and dialing back Cyan channel about -15. This causes the Brown/Orange to turn a nice fiery red/orange.

My filters I use are the 36mm Baader ones that come with STF-8300 Pro package.

Originally Posted by RobF

Wonderful colour choice - pleasing to the eye and highlights features very well. Top effort.

Thanks Rob. Appreciate the time to give feedback.

Originally Posted by Rigel003

Lovely image Chris. What a great start to your narrowbanding.

Thank you. I like the different textures it brings out and with a little work on color channels some pleasing combos of Red/Orange, Green and Blue are possible. Given I image from backyard this kind of imaging is a fair bit easier than LRGB.