for a first go they are quite a treat! a tad green in some but like you my processing need work - lots of practice. you setup looks like its matched well. be great to see what you get in the future, and the repros
Ross, I'm speechless mate. What a set! That HH is incredibly deep, superb Eta and the rest just awesome. The processing is very good too. I bet you're happy with that lot hey? Very productive night.
Mike, David, Louie, thank you for your advice and encouragement.
Marc, I am very happy with these images. It is your freely available and excellent advice and your constant praise and encouragement that has been of great help.
Colour is a big problem for me. Everything else is relatively easy in comparison! I could do 10 different colour/saturation versions of an image and then the next morning be happy with none! Maybe monochrome Ha is my calling!
I am very happy with the upgrade from a DSLR to a CCD. I am getting colour in stars that used to come out white with the DSLR and the noise is so much less. I have a long way to go, but I am feeling confident.
It essentially does the job of the Tony Hallas green pixel gun but is all automated. It can tart up a greeny image very nicely. Got watch overdoing it as sometimes it can degrade an image slightly. So definitely do a copy first and use the plugin on the copy in case you want to backtrack.
The first HH is the better, the 2nd is a bit oversaturated.Also a bit too much magenta. The first HH only has a bit of background green which the above should handle.
The Eta has a background colour problem. I see this sometimes on my images occassionally. I am still not 100% sure what goes on with that sometimes but if you split the RGB and processed them slightly differently and recombined them later it may cause that.
With my images it usually means the green or blue component is noisy or had some high cloud in it or moon.
Ross
what a fab collection of images
I've noticed that some have picked up on a little green, don't
worry I can show you some real green
and I've found a good fix........
see you in Coonabarabran
Thank you for your advice. I tried the plugin and wow! Comparing before and after images, the difference in the green was very obvious. It has improved all my current images from the trip.
I see I have a lot of reading and experimenting with colour ahead of me.
I have attached my Eta C shot after applying the plug in.
Richard,thanks for the " boo boo faces". I know it must have been very difficult for you!
See you in Coonabarabran where it definitely will be very green and also very dark.
Great job on all counts here Ross.
You're climbing the dedicated ccd curve very quickly indeed.
Well done.
As others have pointed out, yes the dreaded green monster... ah it's such a fine line.
Also, while you're going, start taking flat fields, this will definitely help with uneven field illumination with your chip.
I am happy with them.
It was such a big step moving up from a DSLR. Things I took for granted like a viewfinder, SD card storage and battery power were no longer there.
I now had to deal with FITS files, flats, bias and dark frames.
However, to see the low noise and star colours in these initial photos more than makes up for the loss of convenience and makes me want more.
Yes, I can see learning to use the CCD is going to take my astro photos to a new level.
I did take flat and bias frames. they did even out the illumination as the field flattener I used had a lot of vignetting. However, they did introduce an unfavourable colour cast. I am currently trying to work out what I did wrong.
However, even at this early stage I am getting better photos than with my DSLR.
Ross, I'm speechless mate. What a set! That HH is incredibly deep, superb Eta and the rest just awesome. The processing is very good too. I bet you're happy with that lot hey? 
Very productive night. 
collection of images
have picked up on a little green, don't
