Lagoon and Trifid, XT1

[DaveS]

A stack of 19 x 30 sec frames (Would have been 20 but for a passing car) from the front drive of my house, looking due south. Fuji XT1, Leitz 180mm f/3.4 Apo-Telt-R at ISO 3200 on Star Adventurer.

Converted to 16 bit TIFF in Affinity Photo, Sigma Stacked in AstroArt 7, then Gradient Removal, White Balance and DDP

[fwm891]

Great. Well done.

Touch green / cyan to me but that could be my old eyes.

[DaveS]

Thanks Francis. I may pull a 16 bit TIFF back into Affinity to see what I can do in Channel Mixer.

[thomasv]

Hi, great photo. Just wondering why you convert first to tiff, AA7 does handle RAF files. Interested in any benefit as I also have XT1 and AA7, but always just work with RAF out of the camera. 

 

[DaveS]

I must have been missing something along the way, as the last time I tried stacking my RAF files I got a series of Error messages, and the resultant stack was monochrome.

 

Meanwhile, here is a slight tweak in Selective Colour

Not sure it's made a huge amount of difference.