Guest johnrt Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Not sure how many times I've reprocessed this, but I've managed to stuff up somewhere on every previous version. Background too bright, too noisey core burnt out, lost the colours etc etc etc. So after many attemps here is M106 shot during the lovelly weather of early March when I managed to accumulate over 17 hours of data in LRBG. The imaging scope was an Altair Astro 6" RC and an Atik 314l+ as the capture camera. The data was processed (many times) in Pixinsight and CS5. I'd appreciate your thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Like the colour very much but the image looks overstretched somehow? The stars are like little 'balls', not seen that before? I should have another try, don't zzom it up too much and watch the stars while you are processing the galaxy. Good subject and a lot of data shouldn give you a cracking end image! Good luck Cheers Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 When you get the processing right that is going to be a brilliant image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 There are bags of other faint fuzzies in there, Iam no expert on this photo malarkey, but it will defo be a corker when you have sorted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Cannot advise with the processing but have to agree with the comments above, a great image in the making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 John can you save the data files to dropbox so I can have a go at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werisit Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Well, I would be very pleased if I'd produced a shot like that. Lovely colours and detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I am only on my phone but it looks impressive to me. Well done. That is a lot of data!!!! Jd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman_55 Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 That's a cracker. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Lovely image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ecopley Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 That's really amazing. May I ask what scope you are using? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ecopley Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Sorry, it's in the post. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnrt Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) Thank you for all the feedback guys, this one has certainly tested my processing skills as well as my patience! I've spent the morning once again going through my data and have put together another process, this one is primarilly done in photoshop with just a few minor adjustments in Pixinsight - which is the opposite way to how I normally work. From discussion elsewhere I think that the level I was wanting to push the image to was beyond the data I have captured so far, to achieve the smooth transition between galaxy arms and background at the brightness levels I wanted needs *lots* more data! THe image in the original post may now be broken as I have replaced the image with the updated version. Edited March 21, 2014 by johnrt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 That's a great improvement, cracking image!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Much better, an image to be proud of that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Hi John number two image much better really great Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Second image is much the better John. I have problems with colour in PI and usually end up doing the colour stuff in PS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Yes, second image is much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnrt Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Thanks folks. I feel much better now I've got much closer to beating this beast, I'm still left in two minds as to whether to press on with yet more exposure or move on to another target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 John - tried processing using DDP - this was with AstroArt 5.0 but its in PI as well. I've used this before to lift troublesome areas - hope you dont mind the noise level has increased but I'm hoping that's more to do with working off a jpg file... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnrt Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 John - tried processing using DDP - this was with AstroArt 5.0 but its in PI as well. I've used this before to lift troublesome areas - hope you dont mind the noise level has increased but I'm hoping that's more to do with working off a jpg file... I think you've fallen in to the same trap as my early efforts, the core looks too blown out and the background too light. My data isn't up to the harder processing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwm891 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Probably John - but the upload looks nothing like the image I have here on screen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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