Little Triffid

[beren]

Had a go at M20 last night with the ST2000xcm, just managed to get 3x15 subs before the region was out of view behind my house's roof. Used 3 separate darks and a number of bias frames, seemed to have less hot pixels then the previous night. Really have to get a handle on how to bring out star colours....cheers for looking and clear skies to all.

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice result on the neb, Stuart. I found that for star colours, nothing beats more exposures.

You can also try Noel Carboni's "enhance star colours" action.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Great image Stuart,

Wonderful colours and nice detail.

Well done.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Very nice Stuart.
Is that 3x15sec or 3x15mins!?
I know it's going to be the former and I'm going to kick myself for buying a DSLR instead of a CCD!!

All the best
Doug

[RB (Andrew)]

Looking very nice Stuart, colours are vivid.
Maybe increase the file size from 90k as it shows a fair bit of jpg compression.

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

Nice image Stuart, wish I knew how to get the colours like this.

[beren]

Cheers and thanks for the Feeback Mike,Matty,Doug,Andrew, Jeff

Doug 15 mins subs

RB here's a link to a bigger version keep forgetting


Jeff Im trying to get a better handle on mask processing you might find this article helpful as a introduction .........


http://www.astronomyphotos.com/PhotoshopTechniques1.htm

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by beren

Doug 15 mins subs

Phew, I can breath again!!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by iceman

Nice result on the neb, Stuart. I found that for star colours, nothing beats more exposures.

You can also try Noel Carboni's "enhance star colours" action.

I agree. Noel Carboni actions are very handy. You can run the same action more than once and in the case of the above usually requires several goes through.

Greg.