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bunyon
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Pleiades and Rossette new
      #5657712 - 02/02/13 08:52 AM
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It wasn't a bad night but clouds rolled in and cut me off on the Rosette, but I'm happy with how these turned out.

Cheers.

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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: bunyon]
      #5657849 - 02/02/13 10:16 AM
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Good Rose, sharp focus and great depth. M45 seems a bit off in color. Did you neutralize the background in these?

Give us some details...

John

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bunyon
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: jambroseus]
      #5658061 - 02/02/13 12:42 PM
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On this computer it looks a little red. That's what I get for late night processing.

Details are on the astrobin site. No color correction was made except by eye as I processed. I really should shoot a gray card with the modded cam.

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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: bunyon]
      #5658807 - 02/02/13 07:50 PM Attachment (7 downloads)
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On this computer it looks a little red. That's what I get for late night processing.

Details are on the astrobin site. No color correction was made except by eye as I processed. I really should shoot a gray card with the modded cam.



Start by aligning the R, G and B channels

Edited by terry59 (02/02/13 07:57 PM)

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bunyon
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: terry59]
      #5658929 - 02/02/13 09:06 PM
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Terry, what software do you use to do that? I'm playing with channels in photoshop but I can't tell they're off - for what it's worth, the shorttube I image with focuses R and B at very different places.

Here is a revision which is much more blue and I've done a star reduction.

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Re: Pleiades and Rossette [Re: bunyon]
      #5658944 - 02/02/13 09:19 PM
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Paul nice images, Rossette looks mighty fine and the re process on the colours for Pleides looks much better,

Carl

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NeilMac
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: carlstronomy]
      #5659126 - 02/02/13 11:35 PM
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What EP/magnification is being used for these pics?

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terry59
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: bunyon]
      #5659470 - 02/03/13 07:44 AM
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I ran a Dynamic Bakground Extraction on it using PixInsight

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bunyon
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: terry59]
      #5659519 - 02/03/13 08:44 AM
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I need to get PixInsight. Seems the answer to every other question I ask lately. Thanks.


NeilMac: both images are prime focus (f/5) with an Orion short tube. No eyepieces or other mag. The st80 is 400mm focal length, 80mm aperture.

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SKYGZR
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: bunyon]
      #5661020 - 02/04/13 01:04 AM
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A minus violet filter may help when using the ST80. (not the best little refractor for AP), better for guiding. An AT 72 will be better color corrected.

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darbyvet
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Re: Pleiades and Rossette new [Re: bunyon]
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On this computer it looks a little red. That's what I get for late night processing.

Details are on the astrobin site. No color correction was made except by eye as I processed. I really should shoot a gray card with the modded cam.



I had a terrible time trying to get the red out of my m45 until I used a grey card shot to balance my modded camera. After applying the custom white balance I could finally get some blue.You can correct the color balance in your image after the fact by using a grey card photo and PS.

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