LDN1448 - Thoughts please

[Clarkey]

This is about 11 hours of RGB data taken from a 12" F3.8 Newtonian - data from Roboscopes.

I really struggle to get dark nebula detail, so I have had a good go at this one to see what came out. Although I am reasonably happy with the results, it still is a little 'wrong' to my eyes. Any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received - in particular processing in PI.

Thanks in advance.

 

[windjammer]

It is a spectacular pic.  I love it. Stars are great edge to edge, no haloes, subtle colours. I would be really pleased with this.  To be totally picky, arguably a red tinge to the dark clouds esp away from the centre of the frame.  But are they always grey/black ? And possibly star colours also a bit red tinged.  Is that what you had in mind when you said it isn't quite right ?

Well done even if you don't like it !

[Adreneline]

Right or wrong I always feel you should try to keep the rgb histograms aligned - difficult at times.

To my eyes there is a hint of magenta about the image so I inverted the image and applied SCNR.

I then re-iverted the image and applied SCNR again and the resulting histograms are almost aligned.

It would be easy to align the Red now using HT but if I try with a .jpg image it all goes bonkers - it needs to be done on the .xsif file in PI.

Now I accept a lot of folk like magenta and green in their images so this is all down to personal taste so feel free to completely ignore all of the above! 😆

Sometimes individuality is more important than conforming to some expected norm - it makes life, and images, more interesting. 

HTH.

Adrian

[Clarkey]

2 hours ago, Adreneline said:

Right or wrong I always feel you should try to keep the rgb histograms aligned - difficult at times.

To my eyes there is a hint of magenta about the image so I inverted the image and applied SCNR.

I then re-iverted the image and applied SCNR again and the resulting histograms are almost aligned.

I must confess to not being overly worried about the histogram - however, I think you are probably right about the image having a bit too much magenta. I have done a slightly more toned down version below.

Interesting concept of inverting the image and applying SCNR - not one I have come across before.

 

[Adreneline]

12 minutes ago, Clarkey said:

Interesting concept of inverting the image and applying SCNR

You can do the same thing with PixelMath but iSCNR is much easier - handy for removing magenta halos in SHO images.