John.R.Taylor
Flaming Star Nebula
Not a new image I'm afraid but a re-process of some files from December 2011.
This is a mixture of an RBG image with layers of Hydrogen Alpha applied to the red channel and again as a Luminance layer - mostly done in photoshop after integrating the images in Pixinsight. I also used Dave Smith's method of making a protection layer for the stars in CS5 from here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTSUppcMs8&feature=plcp
This came in useful when applying the Ha data (to stop those cyan halo stars) and when sharpening up the image, this was something I didn't know how to do in CS5 before I watched Dave's tutorial.
The weather remains terrible for astro imaging!
Flaming Star Nebula
Not a new image I'm afraid but a re-process of some files from December 2011.
This is a mixture of an RBG image with layers of Hydrogen Alpha applied to the red channel and again as a Luminance layer - mostly done in photoshop after integrating the images in Pixinsight. I also used Dave Smith's method of making a protection layer for the stars in CS5 from here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTSUppcMs8&feature=plcp
This came in useful when applying the Ha data (to stop those cyan halo stars) and when sharpening up the image, this was something I didn't know how to do in CS5 before I watched Dave's tutorial.
The weather remains terrible for astro imaging!