red dwalf

looks good to me, if you want to lower the red channel a little, it should be easy in photoshop using either the colour balance or selecting the red channel and lowering it a little with the sliders in levels or curves, look at the histogram with all channels selected and you`ll see if the red is overdone

would i be correct it thinking that the best imaging resolution with scope and camera is somewhere between 1" and 2" per pixel ? and does it make any difference if you image from a light polluted area ?

believe it is 0.5

if you are doing narrowband imaging then really no point in using a light pollution filter, i also found on my setup that i would get a funny reflection showing up on the image when using one

did you look like you were enjoying yourself ? i usually find if i look happy my wife doesn`t like it

if you can get focus on both sides then i can`t see what the problem is realley, if your using sharpcap, try and increase the exposure times, should be able to see things with a 2 or 3 second exposure, also what exposure time have you set in PHD ?

looks like a focus issue, sometimes if you can`t get focus with your guide camera and guide scope a small adapter to add extra length to the focus is needed

a lot depends on the camera your using

always struggled getting a half decent picture from this target, not my data but processed by me using a different method than ni normally use. data collected by Steve Lawrence.

i had one and it would not work well indoors, even in the wooden obsy warm room, i but it out side on a usb cable and it worked immediately.

i think we are losing a lot of detail Ron

i tried saving it as the biggest jpeg size possible in photoshop

thank you David

been working on the Eastern Veil Nebula and it looked great when processed and saved as a 16 bit tiff file on my obsy monitor, i have saved it a 8 bit jpeg for posting to websites and it looks awful and dark on my house pc monitor, the monitor is not as good a quality as the obsy one but it looks shocking, so what is the best all round file format to save and post images for the web ? i`ve added a copy of the image i took.

Reducing the size in software is a good idea, cheers