processing advice

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Originally Posted by ZeroID

Cheers Russell ( btw, that is my surname ).

Spent yesterday at work ( some free time ) playing with old images and a couple of hours last night on more. Didn't realise there was so much good info and detail in many of my early pics. Also got a better understanding of the processes involved and once I had my head around the two limit points I could skip the first levels operation and just pick my points at the curves toolbox and go on from there.

I'll post up a few re-processed images later once I'm happy with them.
I've already recommended your link to another new member with reference to yourself. Once again thanks for the very valuable info and keep up the good work.

that's great to hear Brent; looking forward to some before and after pics. it could help encourage other to persist through the difficult processing times we all suffer!

Cheers

Rusty

[ZeroID (Brent)]

A very over processed M42. None of the nebula dust or lanes were visible in the original and Running Man was almost invisible after my last processing attempt. I've even managed to retain some of the core detail which normally gets lost in the whiteout from stretching.

This is from a very early imaging attempt, unguided with 30 sec exposures with an older camera than my current setup.

I've pushed this very hard just to see what was in the data.