JohnP_1

Originally Posted by CamelHat

Really good image John! Let me get this straight: you used only 35 minutes integration time, with what sensor? The Atik383+ OSC? I need to get me one of those...

Here is a screen shot of a lightly stretched original frame. No preprocessing steps were taken on this image, and the light pollution is still evident. I performed an adaptive bin within Nebulosity and DDP stretch with some curve manipulation. No NR applied to this frame. During preprocessing of the posted image, ...

Thanks. I will take a look at a version with less contrast. I tried not to clip the background directly though the whole process. Some tools, such as some in StarTools can knock down the background glow too much.

I like your version too.

Originally Posted by mbenjamin

John, I'd like to see this image with the background not clipped so much. Take a look at mine that I just posted for comparision.

Thanks for your comment.

I posted this when the forum was acting us, so I wasn't able to pin an image to the thread. Is it possible to pin the image that I attached to the thread a few posts ago to the image header?

John

Originally Posted by kingclinton

Great image John, plenty of work getting all that data to mix well!

This is a very busy area of the sky for sure. The number of stars can overwhelm the photo, especially if they are slightly out of focus or allowed to bloom in the camera. The Atik is supposed to prevent the blooming and I explained the use of the cutoff filter.

The clouds rolled in around 12am, which shut me down. My Clear Sky forecasts was useless all weekend. I usually compare it to that from Intellicast. Being by the water can add challenges associate with fog too. My temperature ...

For some reason my Flickr link appears broken, while it was working earlier. I will look into it when I can.

Originally Posted by JohnP_1

Thanks Scott,

I turned up the backlight and I see what you mean by the purple hue. I tweaked the color temperature and saturation a bit.

John


PS> I am going to replace the Flickr version with the new one, so the hue will mostly be evident in the forum hosted frame.

Originally Posted by Hondo

Nicely

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