I am never happy trying to process a picture in a dense starfield. I just ... I don't know. I almost think this looks better when light pollution blocks the milky way.
That looks great Chris. So many stars and so much going on in that field of view. I guess you could try shooting that one from Rotterdam if you want less stars
Looking good! I guess you could also just try shining a torch near the front of the telescope, bit of nasty scattering goes a long way to destroying some data if you want to go down that path
I just posted a repo with a more blue colour balance. Did this by eye instead of trusting the colour balance routine to get it right. What do you think? Yay or Neigh?
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Originally Posted by RobF
If I really try hard to suggest a tweak, might be for a tad more blue (or at least blue saturation) in the colour balance.
Thanks. Check out the Repo I posted above. It does feel a bit better with more blue. The nebula is a bit less intense, but one thing I wasn't able to do was increase the blue saturation. That just resulted in stars that looked plain weird. Let me know what you think.
Sorry I missed this first time. Looks good, m8. Tiny nitpick - full sized image stars show morph transf erosion bit much?
This is why I don't like posting full sized versions
It's a battle of two ideals. The smaller sized picture looks much better with severe erosion, the full size looks better with minimal erosion. I need a bait and switch option
This is why I don't like posting full sized versions
It's a battle of two ideals. The smaller sized picture looks much better with severe erosion, the full size looks better with minimal erosion. I need a bait and switch option
Hi Chris,
that's such a beautiful image.
I think I would have changed the contrast selectively
at the center of M8 like this - I hope you don't mind?
It brings out the darker areas at the center a little more.
This is why I don't like posting full sized versions
It's a battle of two ideals. The smaller sized picture looks much better with severe erosion, the full size looks better with minimal erosion. I need a bait and switch option
Haha. Warts and all is best I reckon. Did it need the erosion in the first place?
Thanks Rick. I'll see if I can fine tune it. The star-masks I was working with either failed to pick up the sea of background stars, or generated a mask that included the sea but then was almost completely white. Maybe I'll just back the whole thing off a bit.
Slawomir I was confused by what you said but then looking at it on my work monitor it does seem a tad green. I wonder if that's something to do with the calibration on my laptop.... I may just wait until I get my desktop computer shipped over here before I work on this any further.
