Noob!

[Andrewsean1985]

Hi, I'm a complete novice (in every sense of the word) for processing images. I haven't a clue on how the hell to do it. Would somebody like to tackle my images for me as I've tried one and I'm lost completely!

I have uploaded the GIFs for you all to play with.

The colour image is the one I tried to tackle.

Pictures in order, (1) My Attempt at processing Sagittarius A,(2) Eagle Nebula to be stacked with (3 + 4), (5) Milky Way and (6) Sagittarius A.

Please help!

Many Thanks.

[roundycat]

sorry to say but GIFs are particularly pointless. They carry virtually no information at all. You need good colour depth to process anything. It can be done to a very limited extent with a jpeg provided it is posted with hardly any compression but the resultant quality will be a lot lower than even an 8bit TIFF with no compression.

To have any chance at all you need to make a 16bit TIFF available, thats why you see all this swapping going on using Dropbox or similar. The forum cannot handle the large files.

Dennis

[Andrewsean1985]

Ok thankyou, would it be possible to send you the FITS file for you to play with?

[roundycat]

tell me more. What sort of images are we talking about? What camera? If it is a DSLR with a huge file size my broadband cannot handle it. Re-sized down to 1000 pixel wide would probably work.

Dennis

[Andrewsean1985]

I used Microobservatory (Control Telescope) to take the images using their telescope. They ten email your images after they have been took. The Sagittarius A image is a FITS file and the rest came as GIFS. I don't really know more than that I'm afraid roundycat.

[Cloudwatcher]

Well,can't say that the Eagle has landed but he does show up a little better in colour (as do the artefacts ).

[Andrewsean1985]

Thank you ever ever so much Cloudwatcher. Looks brilliant!

[Andrewsean1985]

Would it be possible for you to try the Milky Way and the Sagittarius A?

[Cloudwatcher]

I can't see nowt in the Milky Way image.......... all milk and no way!

As for Sagittarius,it's very difficult to see the stars for the clutter plus I'm not at all sure what I'm looking at. Not really familiar with the area as it is too low in the sky for me................ anyhow,this is what I came up with,misshapen stars and all.

[Andrewsean1985]

I can't see nowt in the Milky Way image.......... all milk and no way!

As for Sagittarius,it's very difficult to see the stars for the clutter plus I'm not at all sure what I'm looking at. Not really familiar with the area as it is too low in the sky for me................ anyhow,this is what I came up with,misshapen stars and all.

Thankyou once again Cloudwatcher. You are a complete legend!

Once again thankyou ever so much!

[Andrewsean1985]

Another new image I've had done. Constellation Cygnus. This is what I got through processing, if you would like to play then pease feel free. I have added the PHP, FITS and JPG files.