Open Season!

[JCJC]

Awesome, nice a dusty...

Jordan

[ollypenrice]

QUOTE Interested to see your colour exposure times. I think this totally refutes the argument that that each colour channel should have as much data as the luminence. The colour is rich and noise free.

- I have never heard of this argument, Martin, and TBH it sounds most odd to me. I never shoot anything like as much colour as lum. However, in this image the colour was not of the best and in its original form was not noise free. I Noise Reduced it quite heavily, relying on the longish Lum to put back the detail. Since I'm going to be using this image as an overlay on a very wide field shot I left it as it was for now. The faint outer stuff will be boosted in the full mosaic.

QUOTE I'll be interested to see your layer masking write up. I've never had to resort to channels in CS2 or CS4 so I'm a bit puzzled

-Maybe I'm missing something here but I couldn't get the Layer Mask operational in Layers, only in Channels. It was a helpful post in the forum which got me moving here.

Olly

[ncjunk]

Very nice image, I can´t wait to see the widefield shot when you finish it.

Neil C

[assouptro]

Yup thats gotta be one of the finest I've seen:eek:.

Feel like selling all my gear so i can spend a few weeks at your place:D.

Stunning:headbang:

Bryan.

[Tim]

Exquisite Olly, love that dust.

[Tim]

Btw, with CS3 you should have no trouble using layer masks in the Layers tab. Sometimes you can get a problem if a channel is deselected though.

[MG1]

wow, I've got sooooo much to learn.

[ollypenrice]

wow, I've got sooooo much to learn.

Haven't we all! But this is the right place. I called on lots of help for this image and, as ever, it was to be found. My thanks to all.

Olly

[Neil27]

Great shot Olly,

You must have some pretty dark skies Olly where you live.

Its definitely desktop material, what scope camera did you use?

Many thanks, Neil.

[ollypenrice]

Hi Neil,

Yes, it is dark here; I chose the house specifically for astronomy. Young eyes record Mag 7 on the Zenith and you can just about see the Gegenshein even with indifferent eyes like mine. I think that as far as mainland Europe goes it's about as good as it gets. Being at 3000 feet does no harm either.

The scope was a Takahashi FSQ 85ED at native focal length of 450mm and the camera an excellent Atik 4000 mono with Baader interferometric LRGB filters. The mount was the good 'ol EQ6.

Cheers,

Olly

[Trevor N]

Excellent, Trevor