Hi All,
I know that Fay highlighted the astronomy Tools package for Photoshop a few weeks ago downloadable from here:
http://actions.home.att.net/Astronomy_Tools.html
I decided to download & have a play (not much to loose for £11). The first thing I tried was playing around with my recent M16 image. I decided to add some False colour Ha. As you can see this is quite effective - I also did a noise reduction on this image (again I was quite pleased with the results). You can see the results here:
Before:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/m16_20060717.jpg)
After:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/m16_20060717_FC.jpg)
I also played around with removing Blue Halo's on one of my M57 images - again this worked very well. I'm quite impressed with the tools & would say they are worth the £11 investment. Let me know what you think.
Cheers, John
Thanks for the info. John. I've often considered getting those myself. Any chance of an example of the halo removal please?
Here is my M27 before & after - As you can see the Halo command has done a reasonable job on all but the very large star upper left but even this has been improved significantly. It is so easy to use.... I'm impressed anyway.
Cheers, John
before:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/M27_20060629_rev2.jpg)
after:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.punnett/graphics/oas/m27_halo.jpg)
John,
I think the Photoshop Astro Tools seems to be a worthwhile buy. As you say, it is quite a reasonable cost. The Eagle looks great, so much depth.
Fay
I was suprised myself how well it came out considering its position in the southern sky... The Astronomy tools did a real good job of adding false colour & smoothing the noise...
Cheers, John