New m42

[Kai]

Taken on the 350d,30 secs @ iso 1600

I know the core is over exposed,I also have a shot at iso 200 i just need to work out how to combine them.

Comments please

[geppetto]

That my friend is a superb shot 8)

Lots of detail and colour

Look forward to your attemts at laying in your shorter exposed shot

[SteelRat]

Yup, like it alot Kai 8)

[Jeff RV]

Nice image Kai,Plenty of detail Jeff

[Caz]

Oh my, that is a little cracker, loads of detail... 8)

Caz

[Kain]

Wow thats fantastic Steve!

Kain

[MartinB]

Wonderful Kai, what an improvement.

Don't know if you've sorted the combine out yet Kai but here's on way to do it in photoshop. Bring up both images and select the iso 200 image. Select either the polygon or the freehand lassoo tool and a feather of around 10. Select the core. Ctrl C to copy. Select the brighter image and press ctrl v to paste. Bring up the layers window. The selected core should be in layer1. In the layers window you can select the blenc mode, choose "difference" so it is easy to see how things line up. Select "move" from top right in the tools palette and move the core into position. It helps to zoom in and use the arrow keys to make fine adjustments. If the core is rotated in relation to the background select free transform/rotate from the edit menu. Expand the canvas a little and place the cursor at a corner just outside the image and turn it round. Selecting another tool will confirm selection. Change the blend mode to "normal" . You can make tweaks to the core layer using levels and curves if you want to. Then flatten image from the layers menu. Job done. There is a fancier way using the colour select tool but the above method works fine.

Tbh Kai the core isn't that burnt out

[CELESCOPE]

Super shot Kia .lovely colour as well you have done a good job on that one , well done Rog

[FLO]

Looking good

[Kai]

Thanks all for your kind words,it made up for not being able to see the comet last night.

I also had a go at saturn later in the evening but the seeing was horrible so no detail on the planet

[Kai]

This is a stack of 8 frames of the other images taken last night at Iso 200.

All i need to do now is combine the two and bingo,my first decent Dso image

[geppetto]

Had a play at combining and tweaking your two M42's Kai

[CELESCOPE]

now that looks great , well done Kia and a very well done Phil for the combine and tweak. very nice image .

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Excellent chaps. That looks brilliant.

Captain Chaos

[Caz]

Nicely tweaked Phil... 8)

[AndyM]

Great image Kai - much better than my effort from last night.

Nicely improved by Phil too. 8)

Andy.

[Kai]

I dunno i go to a meeting and look what happens

Thanks Phil for the combine,did you do it in Photoshop ?

I have heard that i could do it in DSS or Registax what do you recon ?

[Kai]

Two images combined in Registax and a little playing in Photoshop

[geppetto]

did you do it in Photoshop

Almost, Phtoshop Elements 5

[Kai]

I am using Photoshop CS2 is that okay ?

[MartinB]

I am using Photoshop CS2 is that okay ?

http://stargazerslounge.co.uk/index.php?topic=9849.msg105349#msg105349

Photoshop CS2 is the big daddy