[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Looks very nice to me Steve, great colour and saturation.

Thanks Paul

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

That's a fantastic image Steve - great colour and detail there! I'm currently collecting data for this as well and from the subs so far I can see that Alnitak will cause some processing headaches, with ghost reflections and very bright diffraction spikes. It is a good idea to blend the Ha into the Luminance with these nebulae as per Rolf's suggestion in order to incorporate the increased detail / contrast of the Ha image into the colour image.

Thanks David

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Hi Steve, in Photoshop I would layer the Ha on top of the L frame from the LRGB image. Then slowly erase the Ha with a soft brush only around the reflection neb areas to allow them to come through. Finally flatten layers and use that as your luminance. Should be ok as the light in this area is mainly Ha and blue reflection

Thanks Rolf. Will get to this soonish. Preoccupied with telescope problems and other matters at the moment.