Help - Post Prosessing The Pleiades

[Joe_Dinsdale]

Hi all,

So i have been out last night and i have taken 23 photos of The Pleiades. The photos were taken with just a Canon EOS 1100D on a tripod.

So the settings that i used on the caera are as follows;

Resolution: 4272 x 2848

ISO: 3200

F-stop: f/5.2

Expsoure: 1.3 seconds

Focal Lenght: 300mm

So here is what just one of these photos turned out like https://flic.kr/p/CK3eSj looks ok to me, but im no expert.

So i then used Deep Sky Stacker to stack my 23 images (+5 dark images) to make this result https://flic.kr/p/Dcawvz to me this looks wores than the singel photos.

I then moved that stacked photo in to photoshop and did some editing and this was the result https://flic.kr/p/CeM3Ze maybe a little better, but now it seems too dark. 

So far i am not happy with the results. So i took just one of the photos and did some photoshopping on that and got this result https://flic.kr/p/D4SHcg i feel this looks better than any of the others but shouldnt the stacked ones be better?

Please can anyone offer any advise? i would love to see this photoshoot i did look as best as it can.

Thanks in advanced for any help you can give.

[happy-kat]

I have used the tutorials on budgetastro.net to learn more on dss and photoshop processing though I use paintshop pro it was a cheap alternative.

[Joe_Dinsdale]

Hi Kat,

I will take a look at that site and have a go at following the guides, hopefully i will have some success

[happy-kat]

Your lens has great reach. Spending time getting focus is tricky but under pins any images taken. Want to aim for tight round stars. If the lens suffers from chromatic aberration then you will need to stop it down perhaps anything from f4-f6 to minimize or even eradicate from all bar the brightest stars.

[Joe_Dinsdale]

Hi Kat,

yes i feel like my lens has a great reach im still trying to find time to look at those guides but im back at work now so finding the time is hard.