Orion & Seven Sisters

[Space Cowboy]

Tried out the point and shoot on a tripod last night in the back garden. 3 images each made up of ten 15 sec subs stacked in DSS.

Orion

Orion 3x zoom:

Seven sisters 3x zoom:

[LukeSkywatcher]

Cracking images to be honest. They deliver what they say they do.

My only question (and it IS a question) is regarding the green tinge in the images.

Any idea of the cause?

It's not something i have seen before. That's why i ask.

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers Paul!

Cannot get the colour balance right with this camera the RGB histogram is all over the place. The original colour of the first image was a orange hue (light pollution).

[Vega]

My LP filter causes a green tinge. A quick tweak in the color balance can solve it.

[Space Cowboy]

No LP filter used. The RGB histo looks like the rocky mountains all chopped up. Will have another fiddle but to date getting an even balance seems impossible. I'm putting it down to the cheapness of the camera.

[saturn5]

Cheers Paul!

Cannot get the colour balance right with this camera the RGB histogram is all over the place. The original colour of the first image was a orange hue (light pollution).

Have you tried setting the colour balance to tungsten to compensate for the orange LP.Its a bit hit and miss but it does work sometimes.It definately kills the orange glow if the LP is bad.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Stewart yes I forgot to use tungsten.

[Jannis]

Not bad those pics. Colour if a bit off, but otehrwise good.

The green Can be changed into blue/white-is, but.. ..i'm definally not good enough in PS yet to give a good example on this.

Did i quick process on the M45 pic, just to see. And you captured quite a bit of details and stars there.

Here's what's in you're pic: Astrometry.net (Finished job alpha-201103-00924699)

[Space Cowboy]

Wow! Thanks Jannis that's pretty amazing!