My Best Trifid so far IMO - Comparison version added

[bluescope]

Hi All

Last night was just about perfect for imaging here in the West. No breeze, no moon, no dew, no worries ............... so I decided to go for my longest M20 exposure thus far.

Total 1.36 hours, 16x360sec subs @ -12
SBIG ST2000 XCM self guided in CCDOPS
SW 254mm F4.7 Newt, EQ6 Pro
MPCC, UV/IR, IDAS LPS2

Processed raw CCDOPS .fits files in DeepSkyStacker v3.2.1 to produce a 4800x3600 32 bit image then did slight crop and USM in PShop finally converted to 8 bit 1200x880 100dpi web jpeg to post. No other processing at this time ... I tried GradientXTerminator but it destroyed the colour and smoothness of the image. So I left it alone.

I hope you like it !



Just did a quick reworking of the image ... basically lowered the reds a bit and did GradienXTerminator ......

[Alchemy (Clive)]

thats a beauty .... smooth image. just need to set the color balance a bit, use the middle eyedropper in the levels adjustment in the background (bare bit)

had a quick tinker, yours will come up much better as you have the quality data....

look forward to seeing the adjusted image....

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Wow Steve, smooth as!! Quick get the colour balance going!!! Then Strreettch it a bit

[RB (Andrew)]

Very nice detail in there Steve.

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Wow Steve, smooth as!! Quick get the colour balance going!!! Then Strreettch it a bit

What Paul said !

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

thats a beauty .... smooth image. just need to set the color balance a bit, use the middle eyedropper in the levels adjustment in the background (bare bit)

had a quick tinker, yours will come up much better as you have the quality data....

look forward to seeing the adjusted image....

I thought it looked bit brownish red but wasn't sure if it was or just my sore computer eyeballs ..... I need to get some rest then attack it again. The good thing is that I have the data now and can just play with it at my leisure.

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Wow Steve, smooth as!! Quick get the colour balance going!!! Then Strreettch it a bit

Ok Paul .... don't start the party yet .... give me a couple of days maybe .... but I'll see .... right now I'm knackered .... I was up 'till 5.30am processing images.

Where did you get that little red guy from ? He's cool ! Oh I found him !

Originally Posted by RB

Very nice detail in there Steve.


What Paul said !

Thanks Andrew .... ditto what I said to Paul.

[Matty P (Matt)]

A lovely smooooooth image Steve. You have done a great job.

Well done.

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by Matty P

A lovely smooooooth image Steve. You have done a great job.

Well done.

Thanks Matt !