Astronomy Tools....

[JohnP]

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:


After:


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

[Mike]

Thanks for the info. John. I've often considered getting those myself. Any chance of an example of the halo removal please?

[JohnP]

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:


after:

[Fay]

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

[JohnP]

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