Can only improve from here - Antares from Qld Astrofest 2009

[h0ughy (David)]

well - this is terrible but i know with more procedding practice i will get something better from the data. canon modded 20D and 135L lens 2h 55 minutes i think iso800 f 3.5

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

well - this is terrible but i know ...

Are you kidding, h0ughy?
I think it is a very nice image my friend.
I guess it depends on your perspective.
But I am impressed.

thanks for posting it

[h0ughy (David)]

sorry Allan it is woefully processed - we'll see what a second or tenth processing attempt will produce

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

yes mate, your right, its utter garbage, and i mean really bad.






























not.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

The colours are pretty.

[bokglob (Darrell)]

lovely image david,well framed and great colour.maybe some levels adjustment needed but a beautiful result

[Alchemy (Clive)]

i take it you are shooting in RAW mode ?

once again hard to pinpoint the actual best approach or where you should have gone. it has a banding effect ( if you look at the histogram does it have a combing effect? ) if you work in a 16 bit image start to finish its a good practice to keep

cheers clive

[atalas]

Hey Hough...just tone It down a touch and It will look great ! nice.

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

yo h0ughy, i really like your pic, i do, i ahve tried to image this area myself and by good it takes massive amounts of exposure to get the SNR down, but i gotta ask

if you didnt like it, then why did you post it?

not trying to stir, just curious behind your reasoning, thats all

thanks for sharing anyway

[Octane (Humayun)]

David,

I know just how hard it is to image this area, but, it's worth the pain.

Looks like the 135mm is just perfect for this region.

Well done!

Regards,
Humayun

[acropolite (Phil)]

Nice image Sir h0ugh, I saw this image in the rough and from memory, the detail was a lot smoother than the uploaded image shows, still a very nice result though.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice David. A hard area to process but you have done a reasonable job on this. Not too shabby at all. Come on repo 2 -->
Mike can show you how. LOL

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice one Dave. It is frustrating to work this area. It has so many contrasting objects that need different processing. Remember the old adage "Less is More"