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24-04-2013, 08:49 PM
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Hi Everyone,
The name is Dave Moulton I have been invited to the forum by a fellow member Amanda, so just saying hi from the Uk.
I live in North Wales and am passionate about Astrophotography. I hope to pick up some top tips from you guys to improve my images.
If I can figure it out I will add an image taken from home of the witches broom in Cygnus
http:///www.flickr.com/photos/564758...in/photostream
Cheers,
Dave
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24-04-2013, 08:55 PM
6EQUJ5
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Welcome to IIS, Dave and what a cracker of an image to announce yourself!
24-04-2013, 08:59 PM
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Welcome to IIS Dave, beautiful image. Feel free to post some pics of your earthly surrounds as well, it's always nice to see other parts of the world.
24-04-2013, 09:04 PM
JHT
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Welcome Dave!!
What gob smacking rendition of the witches broom.
I think we may have to learn some tricks from you.
Cheers,
Justin.
24-04-2013, 09:07 PM
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Excellent narrow band images, Dave - thanks for posting
24-04-2013, 09:11 PM
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Cheers guys, very kind of you.
24-04-2013, 09:41 PM
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Welcome Dave. Great image there
25-04-2013, 07:44 AM
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A wonderful image. Very electric. What filters did you use for this?
Retaining star colours in narrowband images is usually done by an RGB set that is added to the narrowband image using layers and masking the stars out of the narrowband and lighten mode on the rgb so the rgb stars show up and the narrowband ones are masked out. Narrowband stars are often smaller than RGB stars so this works pretty well.
I did this here:
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/137164599
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/134304721
How to do a mask for the stars is covered in Louie Atalas free tutorials. Try googling his name.
Greg.
25-04-2013, 08:45 AM
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Cheers for the info Greg.
25-04-2013, 08:52 AM
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gregbradley
A wonderful image. Very electric. What filters did you use for this?
Retaining star colours in narrowband images is usually done by an RGB set that is added to the narrowband image using layers and masking the stars out of the narrowband and lighten mode on the rgb so the rgb stars show up and the narrowband ones are masked out. Narrowband stars are often smaller than RGB stars so this works pretty well.
I did this here:
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/137164599
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/134304721
How to do a mask for the stars is covered in Louie Atalas free tutorials. Try googling his name.
Greg.
Stunning work Greg as good as I have seen anywhere, you have a supreme talent, fantastic. Love them
25-04-2013, 02:06 PM
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fantastic image taff!
25-04-2013, 07:10 PM
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fantastic image taff!
Cheers Pat, Diolch un fawr iawn
25-04-2013, 07:25 PM
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Very nice work, Dave! Look forward to seeing more of it soon.
25-04-2013, 08:21 PM
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Welcome Dave. Terrific image, although there do seem to be some compression artifacts.
25-04-2013, 10:51 PM
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Welcome Dave. Terrific image, although there do seem to be some compression artifacts.
I'm sure you are right. the image is only 110k ish so heavily compressed as you say.
cheers.
Dave
26-04-2013, 08:38 AM
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Welcome Dave
26-04-2013, 11:07 AM
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Sublime shot here Dave - so pleased you joined and nice to see you here on IIS, just joined too myself.
Am not experienced enough to any comments/suggestions on a technical basis - just know that it's one darn good shot.!
Hope to see more of these beauties in the forums..
Amanda.
26-04-2013, 11:30 AM
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Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off the ground.
Welcome to IIS David.
26-04-2013, 02:45 PM
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That's a really great shot. Gorgeous colors. Only wish it was higher in the sky for us too.
27-04-2013, 02:08 AM
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Welcome Dave
Cheers Niko thanks for the welcome.
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