1st light with moded dslr

[icpass]

Hello

I have just had my dslr moded and need a bit of advice,i took some images of the veil nebula the other night as a test i do have a eos cls clip filter attached.the image attached was 1x6 min exp at iso 800 it was only intended to see if i could see the veil.

I was supprised that it stood out really well ,but the background was still very light almost pink.Is this because it was a too long exp.

Would it be better to shorten the exp length and take a lot of subs.

Or can this be processed in photo shop.

My second question is after stacking in maxim and saving as a fits file,when i open it in photoshop its back to mono and i cant figure out how to get it colour again.

Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

see you all at sailsbury.

Ian

[astrokat]

very nice bud you coming to salisbury star party, try using deep sky stacker

[RichieJarvis]

If you save in MaximDL, you need to save as a 16bit TIFF file in order to get a colour version - Maxim uses its own format for colour data.

Great shot as well - best thing to do to balance the colours is to load into PS and set the black point in levels or curves - that should remove the pinkish colour for you!

Good luck!

Cheers,

Richie

[icpass]

Thanks guys,see you at sailsbury.

Ian

[icpass]

Big Thanks

Its amazing how something as little as saving the right file can have so much impact on an image.

I had no idea what to do thanks for the advice Ritchie.

Hears a quick result with black point set.

Ian

[RichieJarvis]

Looks good in colour

[cardconvict]

wow very nice

[ollypenrice]

Try lifting the blue a bit.

Olly

[Steve 1962]

Very nice - you'll notice a big difference when you start stacking your images up - I wouldn't have thought 6 mins was too long - I'm running at 15 to 20 mins with a CLS CCD clip and the LP is still managable in Photoshop.

Looking forward to seeing your next images!

[icpass]

Thanks steve

Ill give it a try if it ever clears up