NGC 5139 - lotsa stars, defficient in colour?

[g__day (Matthew)]

Guys after seeing the shot of the week - I tried my hand with 5 * 6 minute shots of Omega C9.25 -> Canon 400D, Deep SkyStacker -> CS4.

I am not unhappy with it - but curious as to how to increase colour in stars whilst maintain colour fidelity as much as possible - suggestions please!

Matt

PS

Second shot 3240 secs 9 * 360 seconds after a meridan flip (nice goto btw - no adjustments to my gotos lately) the only difference in process is in CS4 I ran Noel Caeboni's increase star colour marco three times.

Wondering if star colour fidelity is resonable and how to tell?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Barb gave me this advice for Photo shop.

Go to....Image-Adjustments-Selective Colour
Play around with the sliders until your happy with the results.
On my screen there is a magenta glow to your stars.
The highlights look a bit bright too.

That said, I think you've done a top job on the capture.

[multiweb (Marc)]

There's a basic tutorial about star colors in PS here at:
http://www.waidobservatory.com/tutorials/star-color/star-color.html

[g__day (Matthew)]

Thanks for that feedback! Following that tutorial I get better results:

Second image - with sharpening applied

[desler]

Now that's one spectacular Image.

Tutorials are sensational.

Nicely done.

Darren

[Craig_L]

Good one Matt, and thanks Marc for the link.

[Tamtarn]

Guiding looks good Matthew. Well done!