M42 -RGB & HOO Merge

[mightymonoped]

M42 Orion Nebula & Running Man Nebula 

A merge of old RGB and New HOO images. 

Canon EOS 450d
Canon EOS 60d l-enhance filter
WO Redcat 51
Skywatcher Staradventurer

ASIair Pro

[ollypenrice]

It's all in place but for me the noise reduction is very intrusive. I wouldn't be frightened to leave a little gain in the image.

Olly

[mightymonoped]

20 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

It's all in place but for me the noise reduction is very intrusive. I wouldn't be frightened to leave a little gain in the image.

Olly

Thanks Olly, I was a bit worried to be honest. The HOO capture was quite messy as the guiding was poor and stars were eggy. I’ve probably gone overboard with everything worrying about that.  
 

I’ll revisit the original and have a play. Better still, now I have the balance and guiding sorted, may have a go at the HOO again tonight. Am limited to my balcony at the moment so only have a specific window of time to capture in. 

Have sorted the balance issues though, so may have a go with 30s for the core and 120 for the outer. 🤞
 

thanks 😊

[ollypenrice]

19 minutes ago, mightymonoped said:

Thanks Olly, I was a bit worried to be honest. The HOO capture was quite messy as the guiding was poor and stars were eggy. I’ve probably gone overboard with everything worrying about that.  
 

I’ll revisit the original and have a play. Better still, now I have the balance and guiding sorted, may have a go at the HOO again tonight. Am limited to my balcony at the moment so only have a specific window of time to capture in. 

Have sorted the balance issues though, so may have a go with 30s for the core and 120 for the outer. 🤞
 

thanks 😊

There is a (dodgy!🤣) Photoshop fix for elongated stars. It's very quick.

1 Copy Layer. Set Blend Mode to darken.

2 Filter-Other-Offset. Move the offset a pixel at a time in one axis and then the other till you get round stars. (Use the keyboard rather than the sliders, which are too coarse for small movements. 

3 Flatten.

Olly

[mightymonoped]

1 hour ago, ollypenrice said:

There is a (dodgy!🤣) Photoshop fix for elongated stars. It's very quick.

1 Copy Layer. Set Blend Mode to darken.

2 Filter-Other-Offset. Move the offset a pixel at a time in one axis and then the other till you get round stars. (Use the keyboard rather than the sliders, which are too coarse for small movements. 

3 Flatten.

Olly

Ooh! That’s my afternoon sorted then 😂

Cheers!

Tony

[mightymonoped]

Had another play and reregistered/merged the RGB & newly 'star-fixed' HOO image.

Hopefully this is an improvement (just about squeezed the framing in)

 

 

Edited October 26, 2020 by mightymonoped