North American Nebula I never knew I had...

[Lee]

At Astrofest on Friday I had a chat with a very nice man who gave me a few pointers and a brief demonstration on processing images using photoshop.

I could not wait to get home and give it a try.

I have had a look at a few images taken with the astrotrac last year and found this single exposure of the cygnus region. As I began to play more detail started to come out, and I soon realsied that I had caught a reasonable amount of data including the North American nebula. :shock:

Just shows what can be pulled from nothing with a few tricks and enhancments.

Lee.

[Beyond_Vision]

Well done Lee it always worth going over old data with new processing techniques, it's amazing what can be brought out.

Regards

Kevin

[Doc]

Any chance of sharing these pointers Lee.

[Lee]

Sure...

[Doc]

Pretty nice pointers. Nice sharp edges. I like them....

[Lee]

As for the demonstration.... He showed the correct ways to "stretch the histogram using curves and levels" :mrgreen: Sorry couldn't resist.

Having limited knowledge of the proper technical terms I will now draw your attention to the following site: http://www.astropixels.co.uk/ where the process is explained to you in a way that I could not...

all I can say is it works well.

Lee.

[Psychobilly]

I think Thats our very own MartinB

Nice image by the way

Billy....