Couple of H-alpha quickies

[jase (Jason)]

Sweet images for quickies Lee. Enjoyed the contrast you presented on M16. That is certainly my pick of the two. Good work.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by Rex

Beautiful images Lee. Awesome detail in both images. Which process did you use to remove the stars in your M16? I know there is a couple of options but I can't ever seem to get it to work very well.

Thanks Rex!

I basically used David Ault's process with minor arbitrary tweaks to the masks as I went along.

I did try this on another image recently which had more noise and the results weren't as good due to the use of MT; I ended up with smooth spots where the stars were. I'm sure I could have tweaked it to get better results but I didn't put the effort in.

Originally Posted by jase

Sweet images for quickies Lee. Enjoyed the contrast you presented on M16. That is certainly my pick of the two. Good work.

Thanks Jase!

[Rex]

Originally Posted by codemonkey

Thanks Rex!

I basically used David Ault's process with minor arbitrary tweaks to the masks as I went along.

I did try this on another image recently which had more noise and the results weren't as good due to the use of MT; I ended up with smooth spots where the stars were. I'm sure I could have tweaked it to get better results but I didn't put the effort in.

Thanks very much Lee, That technique is very helpful. Will try it out next time I need it.

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice images, Lee!