Hello I'm light pollution !

[atalas]

Ok guy's and girls, this is a 2 x 15 min sub averaged with lots of light pollution !
If you want too have a go at saving this image please send me your email and I'll send you the uncompressed file

Cheers


Louie

[atalas]

This one Paul !



Louie

[h0ughy (David)]

eioul,

HAVE YOU BEEN USING A FILTER, not the liquid amber type

[Striker (Tony)]

I had a go at your above image Louie.....would turn out a lot better with your original.

Much better colour on this last one of your's Louie.....the other one I couldn't do anything with.

What do you think....I tried hard not to darken the background too much as I know I do this too much but thats just because I prefer to look at it this way...My personal preference.

I would like to see how others go with the full size image to work with.

[ving (David)]

all i see is light pollution.... what do we work on?

[atalas]

Yes Dave,I use the Astronomics CLS , and here's another interersting corruption of colour
this image is a 15min exposure and before I saved It as a FITS file It looked like the image above

Louie

[atalas]

Looking better Tony ! when your fighting so much light pollution Its hard to keep the background natural looking I think .


Louie

[atalas]

Use the UHC filter Ving ! oh sorry I mean David


Louie

[ving (David)]

[RB (Andrew)]

I gave it a quick go Louie, this is how it came out although it's been compressed heaps.

[Striker (Tony)]

This is a good as I can get it Louie.

Thanks for letting me have a go at your image.

[ving (David)]

i gave it a go and came up with this louie...

[Striker (Tony)]

Where's the stars David.?????????????

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by ving

i gave it a go and came up with this louie...

Did you use a filter on that David?
Or did astobelle?

[ving (David)]

a star block filter?

[atalas]

These are much what I end up with Tony and Andrew , you know that blue down the bottom of the image Andrew ,Its hard to get rid of without loosing all the blue .
Gee thats really great David ! you've got the hang of It now mate


Louie

[Itchy]

Originally Posted by atalas

Ok guy's and girls, this is a 2 x 15 min sub averaged with lots of light pollution !
If you want too have a go at saving this image please send me your email and I'll send you the uncompressed file

Louie,

This one looks much more promising. Please send me the uncompressed version.

thanks

[atalas]

Shall do Tony , and thanks for your help !

Cheers

Louie

[Itchy]

Ok Louie,


Here it is. This one was much easier to work with. the colours in your original were very strange. There was just too much green and not enough info in the image to do much with.

I used Images Plus digital development to perform the initial stretch while avoiding clipping the histogram. While doing this I noticed a rather large darkening in the background. Probably a dust mote in your optical train somewhere. I then went to Photoshop and used levels and curves to bring out the nebula. It was fairly difficult, particularly in the blue channel. There was a lot of blue noise that really complicated things. I managed to isolate the nebula and work on the colours in it separately from the background.

I then went back to IP and applied a star size reduction. It was then back to Photshop to apply noise reduction.

cheers

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Excellent Tony. Nice piece of ressurection!

Nearly as good as Vingo's.