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Originally Posted by alpal
You'd have to be very pleased with that result.
A high quality image with many pin sharp stars.
Well done with the processing.
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Thanks Mate. Appreciate the feedback
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Wow, that's a corker especially for your first image. Love the colour balance you achieved, perfect.
Only minor thing would be there is some red ringing around a lot of the stars.
I'd say try deconvolution on your S11 master and try to get the FWHM value on a few stars similar to the O111 and Ha.
Or easier, simply select the brighter stars (easiest way is use Noel Carboni action for this), expand it 1 or 2 pixels and feather 1 and use selective colour to pull back the reds.
Greg.
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Thanks for advice Greg. I may use selective color with a mask. I already did use deconvolution on SII as well as selective color with reducing magenta, but might take it back a bit more. I dont mind a little bit of a ring as with none the stars just look white and a bit bland.
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Originally Posted by Mighty_oz
That's a fantastic effort for a first go  Got to love those FSQ's Nice framing as well. |
Thanks. It was one of those I made sure to refocus every hour or so and the raw frames just looked good right off the bat.
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Very nice indeed, just goes to show how quality equipment effectively provides good data, that coupled with good processing, can result in stunning images.
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Appreciate the feedback. You are certainly spot on. Have a good camera matched to the scope makes such a difference. The STF-8300 and Tak FSQ106 are soulmates. Just meant to be.....
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Working on one similar in colour and tones and using Kens Map tutorial too. I really like your reds and blues together. I never thought I would like narrow band but some styles are clearly more to my tast than others.
Nice work Chris. What filters are you using by the way?
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Thanks Paul. Took a bit of work to get color to a point I was happy. This time I took my own advice. Got it to where I thought it was good. then slept on it. looked at it and made quite a few adjustments the next day. Biggest tip I read was using selective color on Red and dialing back Cyan channel about -15. This causes the Brown/Orange to turn a nice fiery red/orange.
My filters I use are the 36mm Baader ones that come with STF-8300 Pro package.
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Originally Posted by RobF
Wonderful colour choice - pleasing to the eye and highlights features very well. Top effort.
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Thanks Rob. Appreciate the time to give feedback.
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Originally Posted by Rigel003
Lovely image Chris. What a great start to your narrowbanding.
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Thank you. I like the different textures it brings out and with a little work on color channels some pleasing combos of Red/Orange, Green and Blue are possible. Given I image from backyard this kind of imaging is a fair bit easier than LRGB.
