I hope I'm not being greedy, or more likely a glutton for punishment, by asking for 2 critiques, but they're very different subjects and processes IMHO.
Bodes: https://www.astrobin.com/fx2397/
Heart: https://www.astrobin.com/8d64mk/
As a fun loving character and teenager in the early 70's I do tend to overdo the colors/contrast and tiedyes are OK with me, so we may have to agree to disagree there.
I got my Astro bell really rung while attempting to see/photograph the comet in Aug 2020, some shadowy character appeared and suggested we turn around and have a look at Saturn and Jupiter...and :::BOING::: shortly thereafter I began acquiring a decent rig. But only recently did I feel my processing [skill?] was sufficient to publish, being retired now allows me to overindulge time.
As I was culling the Bodes .fits I noticed the beginnings of doughnut-ed stars in some filters, yes I'm using offsets in NINA, so I'm glad I was able to get the clarity I did. Here's my Bodes work flow:
WBPP with Color Correct, 2x Drizzle, Lights, Flats, Darks, and Dark Flats.
BXT Correct only
Channel Combination
Gradient Correction - I found GC works MUCH better after CC - on this set anyway, glad to say goodbye to DBE.
SPCC
BXT at 75
NXT at 70
SXT
GHS
Curves for saturation
Run a similar flow on Lum and Ha
Add Lum with LRGB Combination
Struggle with masks and curves...
Quick GHS and Curves for Sat. on RGB stars
Add stars with Blanshan/Cranfield's ScreenStars v1.1
Use Bill Blanshan's Ha to RGB Advanced V1
Struggle with levels, masks, and curves...
Compare BXT to UnSharpMask...went with BXT at 65 for less noise.
Heart went something like this:
Graxpert
BXT full
NXT 55
SXT
Bill Blanshan's HT Stretch Unlinked, no GHS??? hmmm
LRGB Combination
Remove Magenta Stars
Narrowband Normalization, Thank you Mr. Cranfield
Curves
SCNR
Add Stars - ScreenStars
NXT
Curves
UnSharpMask
I'd like to redo the Heart with Gradient Cor. and GHS and others but likely only get marginal improvement and I've got many other unfinished sets to process.
I will appreciate any advice that can help me move from intermediate[?] to advanced processing and will share data if you wanna have a go yourself.
Thanks for your time and Clear Skies!!!
Bodes: https://www.astrobin.com/fx2397/
Heart: https://www.astrobin.com/8d64mk/
As a fun loving character and teenager in the early 70's I do tend to overdo the colors/contrast and tiedyes are OK with me, so we may have to agree to disagree there.
I got my Astro bell really rung while attempting to see/photograph the comet in Aug 2020, some shadowy character appeared and suggested we turn around and have a look at Saturn and Jupiter...and :::BOING::: shortly thereafter I began acquiring a decent rig. But only recently did I feel my processing [skill?] was sufficient to publish, being retired now allows me to overindulge time.
As I was culling the Bodes .fits I noticed the beginnings of doughnut-ed stars in some filters, yes I'm using offsets in NINA, so I'm glad I was able to get the clarity I did. Here's my Bodes work flow:
WBPP with Color Correct, 2x Drizzle, Lights, Flats, Darks, and Dark Flats.
BXT Correct only
Channel Combination
Gradient Correction - I found GC works MUCH better after CC - on this set anyway, glad to say goodbye to DBE.
SPCC
BXT at 75
NXT at 70
SXT
GHS
Curves for saturation
Run a similar flow on Lum and Ha
Add Lum with LRGB Combination
Struggle with masks and curves...
Quick GHS and Curves for Sat. on RGB stars
Add stars with Blanshan/Cranfield's ScreenStars v1.1
Use Bill Blanshan's Ha to RGB Advanced V1
Struggle with levels, masks, and curves...
Compare BXT to UnSharpMask...went with BXT at 65 for less noise.
Heart went something like this:
Graxpert
BXT full
NXT 55
SXT
Bill Blanshan's HT Stretch Unlinked, no GHS??? hmmm
LRGB Combination
Remove Magenta Stars
Narrowband Normalization, Thank you Mr. Cranfield
Curves
SCNR
Add Stars - ScreenStars
NXT
Curves
UnSharpMask
I'd like to redo the Heart with Gradient Cor. and GHS and others but likely only get marginal improvement and I've got many other unfinished sets to process.
I will appreciate any advice that can help me move from intermediate[?] to advanced processing and will share data if you wanna have a go yourself.
Thanks for your time and Clear Skies!!!