Had a go at the orion nebula last night

[Marky1973]

Nice tutorial there. Will try tomorrow on my wide fields that come out flat an grey. Im not doing anything post stacking in dss. Thats probably my prob, i hope

Thanks Goose - hope it helps! As I said, some will say not to touch the images in DSS, leave it all to PS or GIMP. I just wonder if it helps with our shorter exposures? Perhaps, later down the line, when I start looking at a better mount and guiding, the longer exposures will have enough detail in them to not need the DSS tweaks?

Be interested to know if it makes a difference to your stacks!

[Astrosurf]

You're really coming on Bill! And for any gradient on the Images, try the GradientXTerminator plug-in in PS. It's excelent.

Onward and upward!

Alexxx

[goose35]

Be interested to know if it makes a difference to your stacks!

It has helped yes. Good to have a bit of color so i can reference it in PS rather than guessing what color it is

[Marky1973]

Excellent, glad it has helped - no stopping you now! 

[Starlight 1]

Bill,  with flats if you got a laptop open up note pad and hold in front for the flat run.

[goose35]

Bill, with flats if you got a laptop open up note pad and hold in front for the flat run.

Brill idea ill try that next time out. Not done any flat frames yet

[happy-kat]

Budgetastro.net had a great guide on how to make flats, no t shirt involved. I followed the guide but hung a white envelope over the monitor on notepad this worked for me.

[Marky1973]

You can always try my flowerpot method mentioned in post #16 above - although, depending on the aperture of the scope you may need a big flowerpot - and would then look a little "odd" to the neighbours in the middle of the night holding it up to your telescope....

[happy-kat]

Flower pot is brilliant but for me I needed flats from a camera lens and wanted to try them quick but I have your flower pot post bookmarked

[BillPickle]

You're really coming on Bill! And for any gradient on the Images, try the GradientXTerminator plug-in in PS. It's excelent.

Onward and upward!

Alexxx

Thanks

I downloaded a trial of gradient exterminator and put it in my plug ins folder in photoshop cc... but cant find it anywhere in the program. do you know where i should be looking?

[BillPickle]

actually... i had the 32 bit version instead of 64 bit.. prob solved