Imaged Comet Jacques with modded DSLR - please help me with colour balance!

[Fordos Moon]

Hi All,

I fell asleep in my observatory last night whilst taking images of the comet. So today I used DSS to stack 100x30 second lights, 20 darks and 20 flats.

I caught it quite nicely going past the bottom of the Heart Nebula.

I selected the centre of the comet on every image to stack the comet and stars precisely.

But look at what DSS has thrown out.

My modded DSLR makes stuff super red (works great with nebulae) when doing more widefield stuff.

I'm sure I have heard talk on here about how to reset colour balance in Photoshop - I would REALLY appreciate a steer.

jpeg of my TIFF file attached

regards

Bob

[Fordos Moon]

In a single frame the comet was nicely green - this seems to have been lost in the stacking process?

[Fordos Moon]

Here is what happened when I stacked on ""star trail" mode, and a single frame from my imaging:

[Mukv]

Greetings

 

I struggle with color balance in DSS also but I found the movement of the controls way to sensitive and had to concentrate hard to move the smallest amounts to get results. Also try setting a manual white balance in camera to try and counter the red color cast.

 

this what I managed with 7 frames and dew forming on the secondary

 

 

7X 10 s iso 1600

canon 5dmk2

300pds

coma corrector

 

only just pick out the green

 

Andy

[Fordos Moon]

Greetings

 

I struggle with color balance in DSS also but I found the movement of the controls way to sensitive and had to concentrate hard to move the smallest amounts to get results. Also try setting a manual white balance in camera to try and counter the red color cast.

 

this what I managed with 7 frames and dew forming on the secondary

 

C2014 E2 jacques.jpg

 

7X 10 s iso 1600

canon 5dmk2

300pds

coma corrector

 

only just pick out the green

 

Andy

Thanks Andy - please can you explain how to set the manual custom white balance as if you were talking to an idiot? (lol)

[Mukv]

Greetings

I guess you are using the 1100d from your tag line, this should help http://www.canon.co.uk/support/consumer_products/products/cameras/digital_slr/eos_1100d.aspx?type=faq&faqdetailid=tcm:14-821752

try 5600k as a starting point adjust in 100 increments till you find the sweet spot 

nice captures by the way

Andy

[szymon]

Very nice captures. It actually looks kinda neat in red too :-)

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[Fordos Moon]

Wow - thanks both - so these are actually nice captures? Was I expecting too much?

[Fordos Moon]

My biggest concern is the Comet has lost all it's beautiful green colour once stacked!

[Mukv]

^Greetings

^{The data is still there it's just a matter of processing, I only used DSS with my picture although the number of frames is less the color came out, with the red cast maybe try a photoshop type app to tweak it some more.}

^{bottom line is the green is in there somewhere but it's shy.}

^Andy 

[Pete Presland]

its a pretty good image to be honest, have you tried increasing the saturation a little maybe?

[Fordos Moon]

its a pretty good image to be honest, have you tried increasing the saturation a little maybe?

I will do now! Thanks mate

[Pete Presland]

I will do now! Thanks mate

i find it all a bit "trial and error" to be honest, the processing is as hard as the image capture!