Ha M42

[Kai]

A bit of a story.......

I was trying to capture LRGB data form my first colour image , and i did .Unfortunatly i just cant get to grips with combining the data (I have tried to follow Martins tutorial :scratch: ) but it isnt twigging with me at the moment.

SO for the Luminence data i used a Baader 7nm Ha filter and below is the result.

20x240 sec subs captured on a FLT98 with a SXVF H9

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[CELESCOPE]

Its easy Steve, just combine and align them LRGB in Maxim, use the HA as lum. then go to PS under image select Mode , then Lab colour , and work on the lum image to get the best out of it , then select RGB. that way you dont touch the colour , can always tweak the colour when finished

Rog .

Not that i,m no expert on it still prefer Mono.

[Greg]

Much better than my pitiful effort from the other night...Well done Steve, you have captured some nice nebulosity there..

[daz]

Like that Steve - very nice!!

[MartinB]

That's looking superb Steve. If you upload the combined fits for each channel to ukastronomers i will download them, see what comes out and send you my processing log.

[Helen]

Do you think you could post the processing log Martin? as I've got the same set-up to Steve,

but have wimped out of LRGB so far

Helen

[SteveL]

A rework of the data from the Ha subs that Kai so kindly let me have (and yes, I know some of the smaller stars in the mid-brightness section have been "ringed"... doh!)

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[barkis]

Almost gossamer like, those swathes of nebulosity.

Steves re work has given it a real celestial look.

Anyway, to hell with the colour, I like it as it is too. It's more deep space like as it is.

But, you're gonna paint aint ya.

Ron.

[daz]

Carboni/Parker = SteveL/Kai !!!

[Kai]

Heres a attempt at reprocessing

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[barkis]

Both yours and SteveL's reprocessed images are mirrored opposed to your original.

Is zat jus le accidente.? My French aint good.

Ron.