M31 - LHaRGB Attempt

[daemon]

I've spent so long on the processing of this one I have probably overdone it. Time to stop now.

Only about 3hrs 20 total integration in L, Ha, and RGB.

Bortle 5 skies near Malaga, Spain. Skywatcher Evostar ED80 on HEQ5 - ZWO ASI1600MM.

Fully processed in PixInsight and using some of the EZ Processing Suite tools. 

Suggestions for improvement welcome. Unless it's to say I need more data (I know that). 😉

 

[daemon]

I think there was too much of a green cast to the last image, so applied some SCNR.....

[tooth_dr]

Hi Daemon

Plenty of detail and nicely framed.  It looks a tad green to my eye with some gradient - hope you dont mind I had a play with it - I selected just the galaxies with lasso tool and inverted the selection and ran GradXTerminator on the image.  Then I ran HLVG on the image, and brought in the histogram a tad at the black end leaving a background of 23-30.

All the best

Adam

 

 

Edited October 11, 2020 by tooth_dr
Cross posted - I see you have corrected the green :D

[daemon]

3 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

Hi Daemon

Plenty of detail and nicely framed.  It looks a tad green to my eye with some gradient - hope you dont mind I had a play with it - I selected just the galaxies with lasso tool and inverted the selection and ran GradXTerminator on the image.  Then I ran HLVG on the image, and brought in the histogram a tad at the black end leaving a background of 23-30.

All the best

Adam

 

 

🙂 Thanks Adam! Yeah, I noticed the green when it was too late. Doesn't help being partially colour blind. 🙂

And thanks for the processing hints. Noted. 👍