M45 Pleiades from High Halden

[mickw]

Another M45
(A bit eggy top left & bottom right)

20x180 @ 800, flats, darks, bias and no clouds this time 
Burgess 91, modded, guided Canon 400D
APT, DSS, CS3 levels curves + Noel



Full size - http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10049/M45-20x180-800.png

[Carole]

Thats looking good Mick.  Sky background is a bit blue but easily fixed.
Guiding looks good but as you say the corners are a bit iffy, but otherwise very good.

I see you use Noel's actions.  I have tried to use them a couple of times but find it sometimes automatically converts the image to 8bit and I've not realised and saved losing all my 16bit data which is really annoying.  

Carole

[mickw]

Thanks Carole, the background gained a bit extra blue when I sampled down from Tif for some reason, I'll re-tweak it at some time 

I only use noel's stuff for things I don't know how to do in PS, but there are better ways to do it.

[MarkS]

Lots of nice nebulosity there Mick.

Shame about the "eggy" stars - I guess some part of the imaging train is not quite square.

If it were not so blue I think you'll find there is more colour waiting to come out.

Mark

[The Thing]

Nice one Mick. It might be eggy but it's no yolk [groan].

[mickw]

Thanks for that, for some reason the red seems to have faded so I will reprocess it at some stage and try and sort the colours out.  I'm pleased with the nebulosity though.

Duncan, go and stand in the corner 

[Carole]

I'm pleased with the nebulosity though

Yes that's very nice Mick.

Carole

[JohnP]

Again looks very good Mick -Lots of nebulosity showing. A quick & easy way to rebalance colours is if you select LEVELS in PS & then select the middle (Grey point) then just randomly click on different parts of the background in your image (make sure you have preview ticked). Give it a try. Cheers,  John

[Fay]

You are getting better all the time Mick, very nice

Fay