Popular Post PolygonPi Posted December 14, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2015 (edited) Battling sleep deprivation on Friday due to my new daughter Freya arriving a week previous, I thought I'd have a stab at the easiest DSO to put on the wall in her nursery (get them indoctrinated young ). 51 lights at a mixture of 30s, 15s and 5s exposures. Wasn't really sure how I was going to combine the different exposures, so I just threw them all at DSS and worked with what came out. The centre was a bit overexposed, which was a good excuse to learn about layer masks to blend in the 5 sec frames to bring out the trapezium a bit. It's my first shot using flats as well - I didn't look for the difference with and without, but I presume they had some effect. Very pleased with the result considering the setup (although I appreciate the fact it's so big and bright helped a lot here). Edited December 14, 2015 by PolygonPi Johnnyaardvark, Sheila, xanthic and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Nice one Andy, think there is a bit more there for you to bring out. keep playing with it! Cheers Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Very nice If you use a gradient removal tool, you can get a little more equilibrium across the background [emoji106]? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Nice one Andy, you have done well with that. Congrats on the little one by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolygonPi Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 Cheers guys, I'll have another play when I get some free time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyaardvark Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Very nice smooth image that. Great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 I really like that, fantastic stuff. Congrats on the new addition, my son has a messier chart and solar system poster up and he's only 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 A very nice image Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithysteve Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Nice one Andy, thought you had been a bit quiet lately! ? You should get some free time when Freya goes to college! ☺️ Congratulations on the new addition ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolygonPi Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Cheers all. Yes sorry, been a bit preoccupied lately And the fact it's been cloudy for the last month didn't really help... Think I need to upgrade to using Photoshop. I'm being cheap and using GIMP at the moment (pre-release version that has 16-bit colour support) which works well enough but there's no decent gradient removal plugin. I shall give it a go at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 I found this tool that will remove background gradients. Load in your image, move the points to a nice spread over the background of your image and job done. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/digitalimaging/backgrounddownload.html Personally, if you are going to spend money on tools for astro, I'd get a copy of Pixinsight for the proper astro image tools and use GIMP to tidy anything up on a pixel level. Hope you don't mind, here are the results from that tool. catman161 and PolygonPi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolygonPi Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Ah, excellent, that works a treat! Cheers for the find. I'll have a play around and see how I get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Congratulations on your little one. The novelty of mine hasn't worn off yet an she's 25! Nice shot, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolygonPi Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 I had another go at pulling out a little bit more detail and using the background removal tool. I'm calling it done for now, or else I'll be endlessly fiddling with it. I'm sure I'll try again with new data if and when I upgrade my kit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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