red dwalf Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) M42 from the 4th of December, Starwave 80 ED with reducer / flatner attached unmodified Canon 1100d, guided with Atik Titan and ST 80 9 x 20 seconds lights 10 x 20 seconds darks stacked in DSS messed around alittle in Photoshop 3, i don`t know what i`m doing in Photoshop. Edited December 10, 2013 by red dwalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Very good for 3 mins, but I would expect longer for a guided image Rob? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Ahh, well Ron as it happens I do have a few more images with longer subs, 10 x 60 seconds and 6 x 180 seconds, what I wanted to try was the longer subs which will over expose the core then add these 20 second subs so the core looks normal again, don't know how to do this yet and I haven't got round to stacking the other subs yet, one massive thing I've discovered is that the autosaved images from DSS are alot better than the ones I saved as tiff files on my desktop, lots more colour in them, I must be doing something wrong when I save the images manually, always wondered why there was hardly any colour in my older images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 That is lovely. Framed really nicely in a dark background. Looks very solitary, ethereal. Good work. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 Thank you James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Must be something in the DSS setting Rob? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 A very nice image of M42, excellent for such short exposures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peter shah Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 lovely and crisp....nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezanova Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Nice pic Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eddy Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Lovely and sharp Rob and you have just caught a bit of the running man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 I noticed I had the running man when the subs came in eddy but can't quite bring it out in the 20 second subs, Might get more out of it in the longer subs. Also really need to calibrate my monitor, anyone know how to do it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyboy1970 Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Nice image there Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan the Plumber Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Nice image mate Have not been able to do a video for PS processing as promised, but if you want to call round I can try and show you what Steve showed me plus been on Astroshed tutorials getting a few pointers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Smashing Pic Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 been having a big play with Photoshop today and i think i`ve managed to get the images of M42 looking alittle more natural. now just need to combine all the subs together. firstly the 9 x 20 seconds secondly the 9 x 60 second subs lastly the 5 x 180 second subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 (edited) I wish someone would give the in's and out's of combining images in PS in layman's terms? These combined would make a stunning final image Rob! (I like the 180s subs!) Edited December 11, 2013 by Ron Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 thanks Ron, i`m having a go at combining them now, if it works i`ll let you know how i did it. fingers crossed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Hope it works and looking forward to the 'knowledge'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrocookie Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 Hi Rob. There's plenty of detail in there. Have a go at pulling the left hand slider of the curve up to the start of the solid part of the curve. (Hope that makes sense!) this deepens the background and helps contrast without the graininess of the contrast tool. A gentle nudge up on saturation helps the colours stand out. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 cheers Paul, i`ll try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 (edited) YES !!!!!! finially managed to combine all the different sub lengths into one image and take out the overexposed core, feel like i`m finally getting somewhere. thanks to Paul for the e-mail yesterday, the imformation worked a treat and on my first attempt, although i`ll have to go over it a few times to get the hang of it. Ron if you send me your e-mail address i`ll send the instructions to you for removing the overexposed cores that Paul sent me. anyway for now let me post my final efforts, sorry it`s in jpeg form so i could upload it to the forum. Edited December 12, 2013 by red dwalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Smashing job Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 thanks Kim, think i`ve impressed myself, now i must write down how i did it before i forget ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Nice result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 That's a great result Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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