Getting colour in the veil

[earth titan]

I've been repeatedly imaging the veil, as part of an ongoing project. Try as I might, I seem to get little if any colour when stretching or processing. If I want colour, I lose resolution.

I'm using 300 seconds at ISO 800 with my 200mm newt.

Any tips without moving to filters and wheels? Longer exposures? Better processing? Any settings in DSS I can use?

Thanks for looking.

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[Daniel-K]

have you tried increasing the saturation to 18% in DSS?

[earth titan]

I have to say I haven't.

Is this an option before registering and stacking or on the image afterwards?

Typed by me, using fumms...

[Daniel-K]

after its been stacked, increase the saturation on the slider it will work i had this issue the other day

[Gina]

After some stretching and setting the red, green and blue Levels I've been using control points in Curves to hold the dark and light parts while lifting the nebulosity. I also increased the colour saturation and adjusted the colour balance. But I still want to try a star mask and learn how to do that - when I can get round to it...

[Tim]

Sorry to go contrary to the advice above, but forget any processing within DSS. Just use that for stacking. Use a decent graphics application for processing.

If you send me a single sub and also your stacked 32bit file from DSS i'll take a look if you like? Am pretty sure there will be some colour there, just need to know how to bring it out.

pm for an email address

Cheers

Tim

[earth titan]

Sorry to go contrary to the advice above, but forget any processing within DSS. Just use that for stacking. Use a decent graphics application for processing.

If you send me a single sub and also your stacked 32bit file from DSS i'll take a look if you like? Am pretty sure there will be some colour there, just need to know how to bring it out.

pm for an email address

Cheers

Tim

Cheers Tim

I've sent a PM with my e-mail. I'm currently going through the Photoshop learning curve, so any hints gratefully accepted.

[RikM]

I always save from DSS using the option 'with settings embedded but not applied', then do all the processing in Photoshop. Certainly star colour is better preserved that way and the noise can be controlled more easily.

[squeaky]

For some very simple basics see...

Levels

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Curves

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And then some good basic video tutorials here: http://www.eprisephoto.com/basics-new

[Daniel-K]

how you get on tom?

[earth titan]

I've tried a few things last night and made good progress. I'll post an image this evening with a quick summary but I need to take more subs and add some flats, as my main problem is colour gradient now.

Typed by me, using fumms...

[Steve Ward]

Sorry to go contrary to the advice above, but forget any processing within DSS. Just use that for stacking. Use a decent graphics application for processing.

If you send me a single sub and also your stacked 32bit file from DSS i'll take a look if you like? Am pretty sure there will be some colour there, just need to know how to bring it out.

pm for an email address

Cheers

Tim

I would say there's a lot that can be done in DSS after stacking than people realise , if like me you do not have access to the all-singing Photoshop it's a godsend .

OK you can do a lot more in PS but it's not essential , certainly not for the " deep sky dabblers" amongst us........

Steve

[Daniel-K]

i got gradient xterminator rhe other day its a plug in for PS works great