First light with L-enhance duoband

[mackiedlm]

Still no astro-dark here but I could not face another re-process, so two nights out to get 5 hours of integration, and not the darkest of sky's at that.

But anyway, its maybe a bit too gaudy but I may go back and try to tone it down a bit. But maybe not.

About 5 hours of 240s exposure (half ISO800, half ISO1600), Canon 700Da, L-enhance filter,
SW Evostar 80ED, NEQ6

Stacked, Ha & Oiii extracted and recombined all in APP. Final tweaks in Photoshop.

Still very much a beginner so suggestions for improvement appreciated.

 

[mackiedlm]

Decided to try a less harsh approach and got this

 

[Allinthehead]

On 21/07/2020 at 12:29, mackiedlm said:

Decided to try a less harsh approach and got this

 

I really like this version, much more natural looking. You could probably bring in the black point a touch or lower the mid point, just watch the saturation as it will increase and i think you have it just right here.

[mackiedlm]

2 hours ago, Allinthehead said:

I really like this version, much more natural looking. You could probably bring in the black point a touch or lower the mid point, just watch the saturation as it will increase and i think you have it just right here.

Thanks for that. I'll give it a go. I already did a bit about the red halos by reducing the stars a bit in the red channel and that already seemed to darkened the bg a little