Fake sky!

[ollypenrice]

I have an RGB image which has picked up some horrible Technicolor flares from a star off shot. DBE etc was unable to do for them entirely so I went down the desperate measures route. I made an entirely de-starred sky with a neutral colour weighting of 23/23/23. Maybe the least interesting image ever posted on SGL? 

Actually it doesn't look all that flat on here but it seems to be in Ps. I'll make a better one in Yves scope by taking short exposures into a relatively empty bit of sky. (Easier at long FL.)

By pasting it underneath the flares can be erased and replaced with this patch. I removed the stars by pinning the backgound at 23 and dragging down the top right of the curve in a straight line to white clip anything but background.

In this case the remaining sky is actually the real sky for the image, but I suppose it doesn't have to be. Depends how you feel about it.

Olly

[Alien 13]

The image lacks some of the wow factor of your usual pictures.

[ian_bird]

Beautiful composition though. Nice framing.

Are you planning a mosaic of this?

Cheers

Ian

[sloz1664]

Can we have it HaOIIISII please Olly     

cheers

Steve

[ollypenrice]

You may mock, but next time you have a gradient that won't go away you'll be clamouring to buy this at 2P a pixel!!!  

Sure I can do a bright turquoise one for Hubble Paletteers... (3P a pixel...)

Olly

[Luke]

It looks like a shot through my off axis guider.

[ollypenrice]

It looks like a shot through my off axis guider.

Indeed it does!

Olly