Crescent Nebula - A decent version

[johnb]

So this is my 5 hours worth of 5 300 second exposures (included Darks and Flats), my first image was poorly processed.

Well here is my second processing attempt after carefully reading the various tutorials and yes what difference reading and taking your time makes.

So for the benefit of anyone who interested this is my workflow (dont think there is a right or wrong way)

Crop

Gradient removal

Level adjustment uisng adjustment layers (never used them before)

Curves adjustment uisng adjustment layers

Match Color

Noise Reduction

Sharpen

All done in CS3

Im really happy with the resutl

Thanks for looking

John B

Image is in the gallery where it seems so much better than uploading with the post.

[johnb]

Change the location of the image

[Gina]

Good start

[astro mick]

Nice image,a big improvement on the original.Just shows you had the data.

Mick.