Yes it's another Horsehead

[pluto (Hugh)]

Another image taken while I was in Port Macquarie for xmas.

Some Ha blended with luminance for this one.
Ha = 6x5min
L = 8x5min
R = 5x5min
G = 5x5min
B = 5x5min

SW ED80 / SW EQ6 / Atik 314L+ / DSS / StarTools / PS / LR

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice work on the HH, Hugh! The stars look a bit chunky.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice work on the HH, Hugh! The stars look a bit chunky.

Yes it's a good picture & those large stars could be easily
fixed up in Photoshop using the Ha luminance layer
as the Ha stars are always smaller.

[pluto (Hugh)]

Thanks for the advice guys, I wasn't really happy with the stars either. I'll have a play and see what I can come up with

[pluto (Hugh)]

I've done a repro and have dumped the L data and used just the Ha as L.
It was only 6 frames so the Ha is pretty noisy but at least the stars are much nicer than before.

All the channels were focused with a bahtinov mask so it's a little annoying how fat the stars are in the B and L images, I'll have to look into that next time I'm out.

[alpal]

Hi Hugh - that's looking a lot better.

cheers
Allan