Hello,
I posted a version of this awhile back that I was not too happy with,I spent a good deal of time processing the data I had and decided that the RGB was just not deep enough to get a good result so I reshot it
Had a good night to shoot,very transparent skies and decent seeing.
I collected 15x600s each of RGB to go along with the 40x600s of Ha I had shot previously.
I went about the processing a bit different,I created a Synthetic Luminance from the average of all the RGB subs and added Ha to it at about 50%.I also added Ha into the Red at 25% and into the Blue at %5.
I converted the HaR,RGB image to lab mode and replaced the lightness image with the Synthlum,Ha image.I like how this worked,I have used lab color before for adding the luminance image but never for Ha.
I added Ha as luminance after this in just a small amount,maybe about 8%.
This gave me a pretty good color,I think.
So this is now about 14 hours total exposure time and so much processing time I'm trying to forget about it!
I think this result is much better than the first version,I would still like to get some more of the Ha into it but it is on the edge of starting to turn Salmon colored if I put anymore in.
Somewhere along the way I lost control of the stars and they grew large on me,when my eyes recover from this round I may go back and try again.
Imaged with my TMB115 at F7,ST-10xme and 1200gto
Acquisition automated with CCDAP4.
CCDStack and CS2 for the processing.
Thanks for looking,comments and tips welcome.
Jason
I posted a version of this awhile back that I was not too happy with,I spent a good deal of time processing the data I had and decided that the RGB was just not deep enough to get a good result so I reshot it
Had a good night to shoot,very transparent skies and decent seeing.
I collected 15x600s each of RGB to go along with the 40x600s of Ha I had shot previously.
I went about the processing a bit different,I created a Synthetic Luminance from the average of all the RGB subs and added Ha to it at about 50%.I also added Ha into the Red at 25% and into the Blue at %5.
I converted the HaR,RGB image to lab mode and replaced the lightness image with the Synthlum,Ha image.I like how this worked,I have used lab color before for adding the luminance image but never for Ha.
I added Ha as luminance after this in just a small amount,maybe about 8%.
This gave me a pretty good color,I think.
So this is now about 14 hours total exposure time and so much processing time I'm trying to forget about it!
I think this result is much better than the first version,I would still like to get some more of the Ha into it but it is on the edge of starting to turn Salmon colored if I put anymore in.
Somewhere along the way I lost control of the stars and they grew large on me,when my eyes recover from this round I may go back and try again.
Imaged with my TMB115 at F7,ST-10xme and 1200gto
Acquisition automated with CCDAP4.
CCDStack and CS2 for the processing.
Thanks for looking,comments and tips welcome.
Jason
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