Belated Mercury Transit image, Sorry.

[Nigella Bryant]

Hi all, in this wet weather here at my new home in Devon I've been playing with avi files that I've not processed to date. Here's a belated Mercury Transit image. Lunt 60mm Double Stack, Solarquest Mount and Zwo Asi 120mm. False colour added in photoshop CS2. 

[JeremyS]

Stunning!

[Nigella Bryant]

17 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Stunning!

Thanks Jeremy, much appreciated. 

[Ovi]

Very nice! What were the steps you took to edit it?

[Nigella Bryant]

1 hour ago, Ovi said:

Very nice! What were the steps you took to edit it?

Hi Ovi, once I got a 25% stack in autostakker 3 I use ImPPG for sharpening. Then I transfer to photoshop CS2 (old, lol). My first thing I do in levels and curves. Then I use the magic wand and separate the disk from the outer layer, I then do an exposure increase on the outer layer to bring out the bright prominences. Then save. Once saved I then have a disk with surface and prominences. I then check the RGB under image tab and adjust to add the false colour. These are then adjusted further in hue and saturation. Then save again.

This technique does not require layering two images, taking an image of surface and then separate prominences. It's from one image. 

[Pete Presland]

Excellent looking disc, very nicely captured.