Brian28 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Taken on 15th February and reprocessed over the last few days .. 74 x 180 sec subs , taken with QHY163C camera on my Orion Optics CT8. processed with DSS and Photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xplode Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Looks very good except your color balance is a little off. Stars are pretty good and the galaxy has good contrast and good details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 Made a slight adjustment .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des anderson Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Beautiful detail,a real cracker. Des Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x6gas Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Brian - you've got some great detail here but I think there are a couple of things you could try to make it even better... There is a bit of a gradient - have you tried GradientXTerminator? Pretty sure that will see it off... As Ole says the colour balance seems a bit off - the galaxy looks very blue. I appreciate that you are using a OSC camera but you can drop the blue a bit or raise the greens and reds... You've got great kit and what looks like excellent data - well done on that - and you're a couple of tweaks away from having a terrific image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xplode Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 It's better, but you need more than a slight adjustment. Here's the histrogram...green and red is aligned, but blue is way off, all 3 should pretty much overlap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 I have reduced the Blue channel a bit more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian28 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 thanks for the nice comments guys ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommohawk Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Yes - very nice, and definitely better with the reworked blue curve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xplode Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Still not there unfortunately. I think the problem might be that you adjusted the black point before calibrating the colors so you have clipped some of the color Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzetze Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Agreed, definitely good data there. I can't speak for colour balancing in PS, but from my experience with PI it's necessary to balance/calibrate the colour before any stretching of the image. Like I say, I can't offer any help with Photoshop in this regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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