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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: JohnH on Oct 28, 2021, 18:18:47

Title: M42 Re_Reprocessed
Post by: JohnH on Oct 28, 2021, 18:18:47
(https://i.imgur.com/Q4rZUEp.jpg)

Inspired by Nik Szymanek last month I have had another go at my M42 data. I obviously need to work on my colour balance, the blue is a bit (? very ?) lurid. I think I have managed to reduce the blown out centre slightly. I will continue to practice.

Lum: 800 * 7 seconds, R, G and B: 120 * 20 seconds.

I created new darks which were an improvement on the first set. Since February when I took the images I have a better (not perfectly) collimated scope.

This is the original which, I feel, has some very strange colours:

(https://i.imgur.com/M9txXsa.jpg)

Regards,

John

PS: Carole - I had a look at Imgur and some of my images seem to have had the file type stripped out, this is probably why they will not load. I will see if I can sort it out. JH
Title: Re: M42 Re_Reprocessed
Post by: Carole on Oct 29, 2021, 00:41:19
Thanks John,

The processing of this is much better than the first time around. 

Carole