My most complex job yet. 4 different exposures of 15 and 30 secs, then 2 and 5 mins, almost 2 hrs of data, all combined via pixinsight's HDR composition tool. Then I found out about PI's great plate solving utility, only to discover dozens of galaxies embedded in the image. Look closely and you'll see all the faint fuzzies.
First of all, it's a lovely deep image. Are the star halos the result of the HDR and drizzle processing in PI? I ask, because I am interested in the full capabilities of PI and the results on this list are looking pretty good.
Thanks, I think the halos are a result of the very bright exposure for such an object, 5 mins. Might be an artefact of the hdr process, I've only just tried it for this image. Might experiment more in the next bad weather period.
I took 15 shots of each exposure length, 15 secs, 30, 2 mins and 5.
Well it's pouring with rain here in Melb, so what do you do on such nights? reprocess eh!
I actually liked the halo effect, but for the purists out there, here's a corrected version, I think I didn't click the lightness mask option when I used Pixinsight's 'HDR multiscale transform' process. Whatever, it's fixed now anyway. Very pleased it was so easy to fix
Upped the luminance and saturation a fair bit, gawd you can amend things so much can't you, hard to know when to stop..
Ok Mike, done especially for you, yes it's looking nicer now. No more edits for me, had enough! It's interesting all the different possibilities eh? The funny thing is, I couldn't replicate the Haloed look again, must've been some obscure setting I clicked.
