Old reprocessed data

[Astroboy239]

I reprocessed my data of the trifid nebula. Total integration 100x60sec processed in pixinsight and Lightroom. 

Please feel free to comment and critisize 

 

[scotttumsh]

Cracking image, nothing wrong with that

[Tzitzis]

Very nice image. Well done!

[laudropb]

Lovely image. Nothing to criticise .

[barkis]

2 hours ago, Astroboy239 said:

I reprocessed my data of the trifid nebula. Total integration 100x60sec processed in pixinsight and Lightroom. 

Please feel free to comment and critisize 

 

Ah!  Criticise is too harsh a word really.   The efforts involved producing these deep sky beauties demand utmost respect,  so perhaps Honest Appraisal would serve the purpose much better ,  Your efforts have produced a very nice result of the Trifid  Nebula.  Well done. 

 

[ChrisLX200]

Just personal taste but I would knock the green background down, increase saturation a bit, and perhaps reduce the stars a little. Um.., a bit like this:   Nice image you have though :-)

 

 

Edited June 26, 2016 by ChrisLX200

[Astroboy239]

Thanks everyone. Hey Chris how did u do it? 

[ChrisLX200]

Used SCNR in PI to lose the green bias

Used Levels in PS to selectively adjust the red channel in the nebula

Global adjustment of Hue & Saturation

Selective area unsharp mask followed by Gaussian blur

StarShrink plugin used to shrink the stars by a small amount

 

This was of necessity a very quick and dirty attempt to show some of the things that I would address, really I think the image would also benefit from gradient removal too (at an early stage) but that can't be done cleanly using the posted jpg - you need to be working with the original unstretched data. Remember this is just my personal preferences, I'm not claiming my choice of settings are 'right' or 'better' :-)

ChrisH

[Astroboy239]

I'm gonna do this target with my new ccd soon but for now end of astrophotography season at my place. 

 

Varad