For some reason I can't download these tiff files.
Any chance you can upload all three into a zip file somewhere (even here on the IIS server) Monte.
I'd love to have a go !
Fred - why is your image size bigger than the orginal? Keep it at the normal size and you should have a better result. As it is you have done well on the colours.
I doubled the size as soon as I downloaded it, its a nervous automatic reaction us pixel-challenged plebs (mine cam is 1.5MP) have to subs in a vain attempt to increase res. Processing larger tends to unpixalate images. You wouldnt know about this, you wouldnt need to even come close to that sort mucking around hehe.
I found the res on your subs you posted a bit small to get really fancy, so I gave up ;-(.
Sheesh, the colour is very mute, I cheated to get it up, no wonder you over-curved to push up the colour that was there.
I think its a difficult pic to process to do it justice generally.
You've captured very nice data Monte.
This has lost a bit of colour depth when compressed for the web but I could only imagine what it would be like processing with the full res frames.
Looks like everyone is enjoying this. Perhaps this could be a regular - someone posts raw data and all you data tweakers give it your best shot - then we vote? Could be a lot of learning as people describe the techniques they use??
Fascinating idea! Never processed an astro image before so had fun. Only have Photoshop so had to work out what to do with the layers.
It's amazing how different everyone's results are - I've made a composite of those done so far - it's only a posting-size image but can make higher res available if someone tells me how to do it.
My mediocre result is the one on the top right - I tried to increase saturation but started losing image data. Obviously dedicated astro s/ware is the way to go.
. It`s more involved than doing my canon shots!!
