Milky Way from the New Forest

[tingting44]

Hey guys just had a little play about with three 20 second subs and thats it, stacked them, had a play in DSS and PS CS5, just trying to learn how to use all the programs again where ive been away a while lol, not the greatest but not the worse, only just realised that i mixed ISO's which cant be a good thing, one ISO is 6400, the other 2500 and one 2000..... thought id share my attempt tho

[dtokez]

loving that mate

[tingting44]

ah cheers dan

[tingting44]

another one here, 7 stacked this time, exposure 24sec's, ISO2000, there is also a Perseids (bottom right)

[jnc71106]

hi martin i'd say that both images have clipped black points which has no doubt lost you some data

[astrosathya]

Why is the photo in Monochrome?

[tingting44]

hi martin i'd say that both images have clipped black points which has no doubt lost you some data

What do you mean Jake by clipped? i know you are king at processing so will take all the PP tips you can through at me

Why is the photo in Monochrome?

its not Mono as such, just the way i adjusted the white balance i think? will have another practice at it when i get a few tips off of jake

[jnc71106]

Take a look at the histogram and you will see it's all the way over to the left Martin. You should have room between the left hand side and the very beginning of the histogram

[tingting44]

thanks jake will have another go at it, my PP skills are blooming rusty

[tingting44]

Why is the photo in Monochrome?

looking into this more, when it comes out of DSS and then into PS im only getting a black and white color? the RGB is gone? weird

[jnc71106]

It's in there Martin just needs teasing out I think

[PeteC]

looking into this more, when it comes out of DSS and then into PS im only getting a black and white color? the RGB is gone? weird

Once you get it into PS from DSS, after you've tweaked levels and curves, try increasing the saturation. Others here will know better, but I find increasing the saturation by about 10 and doing that 5 times or more (iterations) should start to bring out some colour. Wacking up the saturation all in one go usually gives a messy result.

Pete

[tingting44]

thanks pete, think it would be helpful if i had more than a few subs, will get more data at the next chance along with darks

[foundaplanet]

Nice one.. 

[tingting44]

Nice one..

thanks mate, cant wait to see what it looks like with better and a lot more subs

[Rommel]

Wheres the Forrest? I miss it from the pictures.

You dont need to stack milky way pcitures when using wideangle. Its not like youre shooting DSO.

[tingting44]

The New Forest is in Hampshire, UK

i thought stacking for any object your shooting will help to bring out more detail, like HDR shooting?

[sharkmelley]

Definitely stack them.  As many as you can!

The more you stack, the cleaner the image will look and the greater the opportunity to stretch the data to reveal the faint nebulae etcetera.

Mark