Crescent Nebula and Gamma Cygni Area Third Edit

[Beyond_Vision]

I have now restacked the image included a couple more subs to make 17 x 4 min light frames and calibrated the image with Darks, Bias, Flats and Dark Flats and re done in PSCS3 and Noels Actions. Equipment details can be found in my previous post.

Before

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After

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Third attempt trying to get rid of green cast on star colour.

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Regards

Kevin

[LostNSpace]

Good work on the re-edit Kevin, more detail brought out of the image and it has added depth as well......

Mark

[MartinB]

That's certainly more dramatic and contrasty Kevin. On my set up the stars are a little but green. Gamma Cygni showing up nicely

[AlphaTau]

Kev I'd like to see the original next to your latest edit; and so on and so forth...Please!

I say this because I can now see more of what 'I' see actual in your new edit, when I look at that area of sky with just my averted vision!

Just to be clear. The bright area that's appearing around the star (sorry don't know its designation :oops: ), to what would be (I think),south, maybe, south/southwest of Sadir. This area really stands out for me in the sky. It looks like a line of stars near together with just a hint of bright glow, fading off into a near disc...amazing to see this appearing in a pic. It's just like???? .....trying to find the words here lol???.... Yeah I got it! like averted vision in animation

And I thought it was just me seeing things :laughing3:

Regards

Andrew

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks for the comments all.

Martin I will have a look at the colour balance later.

Alpha I have added the before and after image as requested.

Regards

Kevin

[AlphaTau]

Hey thanks Kev.

I can now see theres' some nice dark lanes of dust and stuff. I guess this is creating a nice contrast which is what I can see mostly.

Great stuff

Andrew

[Paxo]

Nice rework Kevin, much more detail and contrast pulled out there.

Steve..

[Beyond_Vision]

That's certainly more dramatic and contrasty Kevin. On my set up the stars are a little but green. Gamma Cygni showing up nicely

Third tweaked image added above.

Regards

Kevin

[Beyond_Vision]

[MartinB]

Oh yes, well done for persevering with that because that last image is just wonderful. Well done Kevin, quality!

[steppenwolf]

Well done, Kevin, this re-work is excellent - there is just to much to see in your image. Your hard work and perseverance have been very worthwhile.

[Starflyer]

Great image and a fine rework Kevin, great stuff

[Ant]

I much prefer the AFTER image (middle one). In trying to remove the green cast, I think you've lost a fair amount of faint detail in the area around the central bright part.

But, having said all of that, it is a very nice shot - and one that I would be very happy with had I taken it (any of the three)!

Ant

[Cloudwatcher]

I have been playing catch up again and having read Ant's post of this morning I was reminded that I had had a close look at this image a couple of days ago being interested in the 'little butterfly' that appears at the bottom. Entirely irrelevant to the subject matter of course but Ant's remarks about losing detail rang a bell and as luck would have it I still had a working image in the trash. I'm sure you would not normally want to give such an image screen space but I'll post it just to illustrate the point about loss of detail.

You have very good image there Kevin which has loads of data waiting to be extracted. (in a proper manner of course. )

Cheers

CW

Click as usual.

[Tim]

Fantastic shot.

My favourite is the middle one. All about personal preferences though really.

TJ

[RobH]

Like the third one a lot Kevin...lovely deep colours

Cheers

Rob

[zhgutas]

That is extraordinary Kev! Simply love it. A very nice FOV and of course, everything else too. You have an A+ mister

Marius