Rosette Nebula

[ASIGN_Baz]

10 x 8 minute subs, guided. Darks subtracted. (Stuffed my lights)

Orion Starshoot Pro DSI

Skywatcher ED 120 Prime focus F7.5

Stacked and processed with MaxIm and Photoshop elements with Noels actions.

Baz.

[Psychobilly]

Wow lovely detail and such an intense red color...

Billy...

[ASIGN_Baz]

Thanks Billy,

THe process last night was a bit of a rush job actually. The red channel has really been bugging me. With more time today, I reprocessed the lot in Deep Sky Stacker and obtained a much more pleasing result.

Baz.

[Stephen Green]

Fantastic images Baz I like the second one, real lot of detail

Stephen

[George]

Yes the second image is a big improvement for detail well done

[ASIGN_Baz]

Thanks guys. I got another 2 hours worth of subs last night and added them to the 80 minutes.

Here it is. A bit more natural looking I think.

Baz.

[ASIGN_Baz]

This processing is hard! I have no idea what bbuttons I am pushing. Here's a couple more......

[MartinB]

The colour in that last image is so subtle. I love it, maybe how you would see it with visually with an enormous scope

[ASIGN_Baz]

Gday again guys. I think it's finally done!

An experienced astrophotographer and friend of mine here in Canberra, SteveC gave me a good portion of his day today, to teach me some of the finer points of processing. My problem was mainly the color balance functions of the editing programs, of which I was fairly ignorant.

I am still working out some issues with flats, so these dont have flats applied, but I am so much happier with the result anyway.

My plethora of TECHNICOLOR Rosettes, my almost BLACK Carina and my AWFUL RED AND YELLOW Horsehead, with the new techniques applied, have all turned out much more natural looking.

Take a look toward the bottom of my page at the second gallery. Thanks Steve!

http://www.asignobservatory.com/astrophotography/image_gallery/nebulae.aspx

[Psychobilly]

The last one makes it look even more Skull like ... Glad you have had some useful pointers for processing.. The latest images look very nice

Billy...