Eventually: thanks Tyler, Floyd and Dan!

Hello everyone

eventually I believe I have managed to come up with a decent LRGB image

I have to thank Floyd and Dan for their support and advice, and special thanks go to Tyler, who worked a lot to receive and to process my data to come up with an image that told me that, somewhere, I had a good image and I only had to learn how to make it appear from the messy data I gathered.
I also have to thank Russ Croman for his incredible Gradient Xterminator, an invaluable tool when it comes to get rid of this great enemy of ours

So here it comes: I'm still working on it, since I managed to get some flats done only yesterday and the first image with flat applied already looks better than the one before. Also my color balance isn't that good (the h-alpha data give a pinkish hue to the image, but I know that there is way to dispense with it: I just have to get to it )

Needless to say I'd love your feedback and further advice.

Ciao
Luca

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Luca, that's one beautiful shot my friend!
Well done! 8)

Hi Luca,
WOW! You did great! I am so happy that you decided to continue in the struggle to learn processing. You are on your way now and things will come quickly.

This is beautiful, Luca! Nice job on this! Perseverance is the key.

Eric

Thank you very much Ivan, Floyd and Enrico.

I hope it gets easier with practice, because this hasn't been an easy trip

However, I'm still trying to understand why my color channels were so weak: I collected 12 color 10min subs unbinned with an f7 scope and I found myself with very images after averaging them. Using the sum doesn't change things a whole lot, so I'm a little confused.

I guess I'll just try another image

Ciao all

Luca

Hello,

this is a new attempt: in reality this is not an LRGB, but an RGB with a modified R channel. I followed Robert Gendler's tutorial (to the best of my ability!) and this is the result. The color is certainly better and even star colors are a bit more apparent than in the previous version.

Sooner or later I'll get a good one

Ciao all
Luca

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