I tried to take a series of 3, 5 and 8 min exposures and then blend them using masking and that was a disaster. I have just done the 8 x 5 min lights and 6 darks with flats and bias frames applied.
Taken with W/O Flt 110 and Canon 400d unmod ISO 800 and stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop cs3. I am unsure about processing of it so any advice welcome. I think it looks OK. I am happy with the focus and guiding. Any advice welcome.
That's looking good Mark. Some very nice details there and good processing. The core is always hard to get when you display the outer neb but you did a great job. Provided the data is not burnt you can always finish off with the shadows/highlight tools in PS. I use that a lot.
Hello Mark,
Looks good - you've done a good job at capturing a lot of the extended nebulosity. I'm just a novice at processing, so I'll leave others to offer advice. I've also just posted a shot of the Lagoon in another thread, so it's interesting to compare. Mine needs more colour saturation - did you do any colour enhancement processing with yours ?
I love the soft stars that you have. A suggestion I'd make is to increase the blue towards the centre of the nebula, and, perhaps a slight saturation boost to the magenta of the nebula proper.
Provided the data is not burnt you can always finish off with the shadows/highlight tools in PS. I use that a lot.
