First attempt please advise

[carl20171]

Hello, This is,      well I am sure you can tell what it is. Anyway it is my first attempt at ap. 

12x300 Ha

12x300 OIII

3x300 SII

Combinded in maxum dl

I really dont know how to use all the controls in Maxum and have not loaded my copy of photoshop yet.

I can see the obvious like I need to crop the edges and all the stars are redish. 

1)  What about Collumination?

2)  What about focus?

 Those are the main questions. 

3) Recommendations on star removal / star color fixing programs.

Any comments are welcome.  

Thanks Carl

[nmoushon]

Thats a pretty darn good start imo. Don't worry about the star color too much. Since you are shooting in narrowband they will be that redish color. Look at other NB images and you'll see that they all have them. You can do a seperate star color layer in PS but I think thats going to need a RGB set of images. I havent shot NB so not sure how that works for sure but I do a star layer sometimes when I'm having too much trouble controling the star along side pulling enough data out for the main target.

This was imaged with the Hyperstar correct?

[carl20171]

Yes Hyperstar.