Owl M97 X-suite reprocess.

[ollypenrice]

@gorann posted a superb Owl which reminded me that I had not yet re-done mine using the x-suite software. This image has about 9.5 hours of Ha/OIII/RGB, so nothing like as much as I would have liked, but I've found more detail in the core using Blur Xt.  Recently Photoshop has added Camera Raw filters which are, essentially, from Lightroom and I think that the Texture and Clarity filters are well worth having.

This is from my TEC140 and Atik 460 mono, mounted on a Mesu 200.

Olly

[emyliano2000]

That's beautiful! I recently finished shooting it and I'm really hoping of getting the outer halo too even though my skies are not as good as yours. 

Emil

[gorann]

That looks really good Olly, with nice structure also in the outer halo. But maybe a bit green?

[gorann]

From both out images I conclude that the more detail you bring out the less it looks like an owl🤫

[ollypenrice]

49 minutes ago, gorann said:

From both out images I conclude that the more detail you bring out the less it looks like an owl🤫

It is pretty green, I agree. I blended the OIII into blue and, in a separate image, into green then weighted them in Ps layers. I would like to have given the blue a little more weight but this dramatically lowered the visibility of the outer shell and the temptation to feature it was too strong!

Olly

[gorann]

10 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

It is pretty green, I agree. I blended the OIII into blue and, in a separate image, into green then weighted them in Ps layers. I would like to have given the blue a little more weight but this dramatically lowered the visibility of the outer shell and the temptation to feature it was too strong!

Olly

Why not just try an SCNRgreen and see what happens?

[ollypenrice]

12 hours ago, gorann said:

Why not just try an SCNRgreen and see what happens?

Thanks, Goran. I never think to use SCNR green on non-linear images but your suggestion worked perfectly. It gave me complete control over the green-blue balance, so here it is more towards blue. I could have taken it further but I'm a believer in baby steps!

Olly

[gorann]

3 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Thanks, Goran. I never think to use SCNR green on non-linear images but your suggestion worked perfectly. It gave me complete control over the green-blue balance, so here it is more towards blue. I could have taken it further but I'm a believer in baby steps!

Olly

Perfect! Glad to be able to help the master!

Göran