Trio in Leo - 2nd astro image ever taken

[icrusoe]

Hey guys, I've attached my best attempt so far at a processed image of the Trio in Leo. I did the aligning and stacking/colour combine in Maxim and did some minor level/curve and layer mask work in PS. I can't seem to get the sharpness/colour pop I see in many of the images of the trio on google - maybe this is due to my low number of exposures, especially the low luminance? I have not cropped the image for framing yet. Any suggestions would be great!

Telescope http://www.itelescop...t/telescope-t16

I've attached the TIFF files: LRGB with median stacking of the separate subs. I can attach the calibrated and non-calibrated's also. iTelescope automatically calibrates the images so I've been using the calibrated images.

Sub details:

Image1:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-023607-R-BIN2-E-120-001.fit (120 seconds)

Image2:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-023842-R-BIN2-E-120-002.fit (120 seconds)

Image3:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-024118-R-BIN2-E-120-003.fit (120 seconds)

Image4:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-024355-V-BIN2-E-120-001.fit (120 seconds)

Image5:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-024631-V-BIN2-E-120-002.fit (120 seconds)

Image6:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-024908-V-BIN2-E-120-003.fit (120 seconds)

Image7:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-025519-Luminance-BIN1-E-120-001.fit (120 seconds)

Image8:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-025824-Luminance-BIN1-E-120-002.fit (120 seconds)

Image9:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-030129-Luminance-BIN1-E-120-003.fit (120 seconds)

Image10:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-031216-B-BIN2-W-120-001.fit (120 seconds)

Image11:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-031452-B-BIN2-W-120-002.fit (120 seconds)

Image12:T16-crusoe-m66-20130209-031728-B-BIN2-W-120-003.fit (120 seconds)

m66Group1X-RGBdelta.tiff

m66Group12-Rmedianstack.tiff

m66Group13-Gmedianstack.tiff

m66Group14-Bmedianstack.tiff

m66Group15-Lmedianstackfoxtrot.tiff

[icrusoe]

http://astrob.in/32430/

[icrusoe]

The link above is a quick jpeg. I just found out now you need 200 posts to edit a post so apologies for these replies.

[icrusoe]

A whack of image downloads and 66 views! I must've stumped everyone