Hello Andy
@Andy Wray I like the details you got from M1, its sharp and without being "oversharpened" ^^
Some few comments:
In a general way:
- you have clipped the sky background which is almost at 0% , you could try to maintain the sky background at values between 6% to 15% this will give a more natural look especially if you pay attention not to stretch too much this background
- there is a residual gradient, from bottom to up, to handle at the very beginning of the processing in linear phase
More specific to SHO :
- you can do what you want with colours in SHO, for my personnal taste, there is perhaps too many green in your composition, but this is only my opinion ^^ I must admit that with M1, I prefer HOO composition
- the same for the stars colours, especially in SHO, you could try to manage stars colours either with a few RGB acquisition or with a dedicated composition for the stars : with Starnet v2, it is very easy to separate this processing, even without RGB data, you may try something like :
R: Ha
G: 20%Ha + 80%Oiii
B: Oiii
with this you will get stars colours "more natural", even if you maintain a SHO composition for the nebulosity
But as I said, you can do what you want, this is just to open you some doors that perhaps you haven't considered ;-)
Clear Skies
