After a fair bit of processing I've managed to get this to looking like I wanted it to. The stars are all white, waiting another clear night to add some RGB colour to them, but I live in Melbourne, so that may be next week or next year...
Anyway, 12 hours of data, 8 Ha and two each of SII and OIII.
I removed the stars whilst processing the image and have left them out of one of the posted images, I like it, but know others won't, but they also won't like the white star version either.
Absolutely drop dead georgeous image(s) Stuart. The starless version is so very 3D I could fall in to it. Beautiful use of colour and great composition.
Both look stunning to me. How do you remove the stars so you can just process the nebula if that's ok to ask or if you could point me in the direction of a tutorial.
Both look stunning to me. How do you remove the stars so you can just process the nebula if that's ok to ask or if you could point me in the direction of a tutorial.
Hi Mark,
I stumbled across a programme called Straton. It's quite cheap, and works pretty well, it doesn't handles the big stars, but then nothing does, normally I wouldn't worry too much because a star will go back there anyway. I've only just started using it and have yet to experiment with the settings too much. So no SOP for using it yet, but maybe in the future, I also have to contact the programmer about some buggy behaviour.
An absolutely cracking image Stuart. I enjoyed both renditions. Details are razor sharp. You've certainly got your set up humming. A benchmark narrowband image for sure.
Thanks to everyone for their kind comments. Haven't had much time to cruise the forum this week after posting this, too busy fixing a gearbox and adding a Watts link to a race car, so I was a bit surprised by the number of comments. Normally I'd try to respond to each, but in this case, just a group thanks will have to suffice.
