M39

[kirkster501]

Half hour each in RGB binned 1x1 and 2 minute exposures.  TEC140 and Atik 460 with Astrodon RGB.  No separate luminance.

I added the spikes with a Noel's action to fat stars only.  It looked boring without them. 

[Davey-T]

Nice Steve, don't mind the spikes, one of the few objects to escape being given a silly name by our American cousins, I'm sure if you joined the dots it could be made to resemble something 😂

[kirkster501]

I need to learn how to get more colour in the stars. Maybe just a matter of more exposure time. There’s only 90 mins here.

Edited October 17, 2019 by kirkster501

[Davey-T]

1 minute ago, kirkster501 said:

I need to learn how to get more colour in the stars. Maybe just a matter of more explore time. There’s only 90 mins here.

Would have thought that was plenty of exposure, I generally bump up the saturation in P'Shop 

There is a method to get colour into brighter stars documented by Pete Lawrence somewhere in cyberspace.

Dave

[Laurin Dave]

Nice image Steve...  how are you stretching?  I use a combination of Pixinsight and Photoshop and follow Barry Wilson's tutorial (on his SmugMug website) on the use of HSVrepair (pulls the colour back into the core) , ArcSinh Stretch  (stretches each channel equally I believe) followed by Masked Stretch in Pixinsight, it give nice star colour..  also in Photoshop if you have Noel's actions you can use increase star colour.  Not much use though if you don't have these apps...  I think I've read somewhere that you can do ArcSinh stretch in Photoshop although I don't know how.

Dave