M31 reprocessed - Thanks to Martinb's tutorial

[jgs001]

After prompting in my original M31 thread, I followed Martin's processing tutorial and after a lot of tweaking and messing I turned my M31 picture from this :

Into this:

[EA2007]

Huge difference. Just need to get some more tweaking on the processing and you will have it spot on!

[thing]

Wow. Just shows what information is in there. I'm very much a beginner at imaging but I'm amazed at what can be pulled out with a bit of effort.

[jonbarr87]

You sure you didnt just take another picture?????

Just kiddin. Very impressive

[Psychobilly]

Hi John,

Hope you dont mind had a little go at it GradientXTerminator...

(click to enlarge)

Billy...

[jgs001]

Thanks guys . I had a little more of a play this morning, to try and tweak it a little better. What do you think ?

I'm very pleased with that. I never thought that with my little 80mm f5 Achro and an AltAz mount I'd ever get something like that.

[rawhead]

Wow! :shock: What a transformation.. With your kit that's an amazing result :shock: :shock: :shock:

Well done John

Will have a read of Martin's processing tutorial myself... 8)

[jgs001]

Cheers Jon

[Psychobilly]

getting there

[Viking]

John,

Good work. Its hard to believe that you can turn the first picture into these masterpieces. Martin's tutorials are excellent.

There is another (free) source which is a number of Video Tutorials. The link is given below. It, along with Martin's and a number of other tutorials/primers is in Astropedia.

http://www.waid-observatory.com/articles.html

and Astropedia link

http://astropedia.stargazerslounge.com/index.php?title=Primers_and_Tutorials

John

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Looking good now John.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[MartinB]

Hey, you've got dust! Well done John, glad the primer helped.

[jgs001]

Thanks very much everyone, especially you Martin for the very informative and useful tutorial

[Ferox]

What a difference, great image John.

[Psychobilly]

Hi John,

Another tweak with GXT

(click to enlarge)

The picture frame confused it somewhat the first time until I deselected it all

[greenkat]

Hi, great pic , could you tell me where this tutorial is ?

Doh, sorry, just opened my eyes and found it :oops:

[jgs001]

Thanks Ferox and Greenkat. Cheers Billy, I think I'm going to have to get me GradX....

[glennbech]

The plugin is great but.... There is no substitude for "flat frames" when it comes to removing gradients. Flat frames will also let you stretch the image more (without showing of the vignette) and hence show more detail.

[Psychobilly]

The plugin is great but.... There is no substitude for "flat frames" when it comes to removing gradients. Flat frames will also let you stretch the image more (without showing of the vignette) and hence show more detail.

Couldn;t agree more....

Another option for "False Flats" is to download PixInsightLE (free) and learn to use DBE.

Billy...

[jgs001]

Guess I'm going to have to figure out how to do flat frames . I'll look at Pixinsight to Billy, thanks.