this is only 3 x 4 minute exposures with Astro 40D and Astrograph f3.3 .
Sorry about the burn out, but have not got the skills to get rid of it. I was impressed with the outer nebulosity that was captured in such a short exposure.
I may have to stick to fainter nebula where burn out isn't a problem.
That is very cool! It has the basis for being a much better image. Take some 30sec and 60sec series shots and try this technique here! I still havent perfected it, but it is really easy to get the basics down. Merry Christmas.
Thanks for your comments Rob. I have been playing around with layer masking off and on now for a few days, and eventually got an image to put up. Although I couldn't follow the link right through with my Photoshop program Version 11, the end result is an improvement on the first in this thread.
This image is from 15 x 5 minutes and 21 x 10 seconds exposures.
Lester, I am no expert in PS by any means but it looks like your colour balance is a bit off ?
Hope you dont mind I spent 2min in PS with your first image
and only adjusted, colour balance , curves, hue/saturation
and got this result which I am sure you could improve on with
more advanced technique ?
Hi Marke, thanks for your reply and tweek; I am still learning how far to push my images, in different areas, so I appreciate others points of view and processing skills.
