Firstlight RC8 QHY9 H-alpha (colour added)

[Paul Haese]

Star colours look nice and the overal look is quite pleasing. If it were me though I would be trying to reduce the pink look to the background and nebula. I found using Ha as luminence can be a hard ask but it you set the blue to 1.2 this helps to reduce the pink look.

All up though nice image, should try to look for this myself and put my mouth where my money is.

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

something that some other RC8 images haven't quite nailed

Hey, I resemble that remark.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Not bad at all for a 1st attempt. Star colour is particularly nice, neb could do with some punch though.

Paul. Was expecting some star colour fringing with the RGB added (bloating) actually, as you mentioned previously, specially with Ha as Lum, but it looks fine.

Interesting, some carefull processing there perhaps. I only get star results like this with Ha lum (well, 3nm) with masking and star RGB insertion.

I dont know how you did it Dave, given the 8300 reservations, but you largely nailed HaRGB in one hit, impressive. What duration were the RGB subs?.

[zipdrive (Dave)]

Thanks guys! 1st time luck I think.
I've updated the images with slightly larger res and colour correction as suggested by Paul, thanks.

I followed Russ Croman's blending instructions on his website. Will have to run through it again fewtimes, each iteration will most likely produce different results for beginners like me no doubt...

As for blooming, I've ran deconvolution on RGB before blending may be that helped? there's so much to learn......

Oh and 10min RGB subs.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Ahh yes, thats a good trick, deconvolute RGB untill the stars are the same size as Ha, your a quick learner

[AlexN]

Good gear, good processing and a great image.. The updated colour shot is very nice indeed.. some of the finer detail in the image is good fun to look at..