A couple of new images - Horsehead / Flame and Eta Carina

I have really been spending time in Photoshop practicing astro image editing ... purchased a set of astro-imaging actions called Astronomy Tools Actions Set
http://www.prodigitals​oftware.com/Astronomy_​Tools_For_Full_… ....
these were posted recently in another thread on the forum
this is an actions addition for Photoshop and have been following a video .... http://www.myastronomy​journal.com/DSL…/C002-M31-Walkthrough/
where this guy makes use of many of the action processes. Following his tutorial, I have been able to do a new and improved rendition of my Eta Carina image set.
8 x 30sec images stacked in DSS saved as a 16bit TIFF then imported into PS for processing

Canon 700D, 8 x 30sec, 100-400mm L @ 400mm, f5.6, ISO3200 for the Eta Carina image

OK this is a bit of a low quality image of the Horsehead and Flame nebulae, but it is my first one of them so gives me something to improve on ...
It's pretty obvious that 9 x 30 sec exposures just doesn't gather enough light for these relatively faint objects ... more and longer exposures are called for
Canon 5D3, 100-400mm L @ 370mm, f5, ISO2000


Am still no expert, but slowly improving

cheers
Dave

Good captures and edit. Those actions for PS are well recognized and worth the money . Back a few years ago there was a forum called OurDarkSkies.com . A member there invented those actions . If I remember his first name was Noel and I think his last name is Carbonini . I maybe wrong on the name , not sure. But he use to let us dedicated astronomy members try the betas of all those actions. The forum ended up closing and I know he sells them now and has been very profitable for him and he deserves every penny , he's a good person . I also have a set of those actions. He used some of my images for testing , made them look great ! But if you have his actions you have some great plugins! He use to edit some images for NASAs' Hubble Space Telescope. I wish that forum was still going. It was a great friendly forum. Best one I ever been a member of . A few members here were also members there also. Nighthound (Steve) was one of them . That was a forum of many many old timers of amateur astronomers like me . Most good old days are gone now. A lot of new newbies are changing how things are done today. Old timers used telescopes, film cameras and edited images the old way. Nowadays you have software that does everything for you and mounts to that hold cameras but never s scope and those who use them never will never truly know what it is like to observe the night sky through a scope and see DSOs' with the real eye, only in images and they get praised for their edits. Those will never know the peace in the night sky. I feel sorry for those that never experience true scope viewing. Clear skies to ya !

Celestron wrote in post #18025493
Good captures and edit. Those actions for PS are well recognized and worth the money . Back a few years ago there was a forum called OurDarkSkies.com . A member there invented those actions . If I remember his first name was Noel and I think his last name is Carbonini . I maybe wrong on the name , not sure. But he use to let us dedicated astronomy members try the betas of all those actions. The forum ended up closing and I know he sells them now and has been very profitable for him and he deserves every penny , he's a good person . I also have a set of those actions. He used some of my images for testing , made them look great ! But if you have his actions you have some great plugins! He use to edit some images for NASAs' Hubble Space Telescope. I wish that forum was still going. It was a great friendly forum. Best one I ever been a member of . A few members here were also members there also. Nighthound (Steve) was one of them . That was a forum of many many old timers of amateur astronomers like me . Most good old days are gone now. A lot of new newbies are changing how things are done today. Old timers used telescopes, film cameras and edited images the old way. Nowadays you have software that does everything for you and mounts to that hold cameras but never s scope and those who use them never will never truly know what it is like to observe the night sky through a scope and see DSOs' with the real eye, only in images and they get praised for their edits. Those will never know the peace in the night sky. I feel sorry for those that never experience true scope viewing. Clear skies to ya !

Noel Carbonini --- yup, that's the dude

for sure, and at US21 AU$31 something, it's very affordable

The other one I have purchased is RC-Astro Gradient XTerminate --- haven't played with it yet, but the guy in that video I linked to does and the difference could be seen
It's a filter plugin for Photoshop

OK on the other old forum, hadn't heard of that one, sounds as tho it was a good one

hahaha I'm one of them

I have only had a GOTO scope for the last 4 years
For 30+ years, I learnt to star hop around the sky to find things


thanks mate

Dave

Great stuff Dave, I especially like Eta Carina. There sure are a load of stars around that one, reminds me of the Veil Nebula. Noel Carboni's Astro tools really are excellent. It was nice back in the day when we got to interact with him during their development. He's a super guy and very talented.

Celestron wrote in post #18025493
Good captures and edit. Those actions for PS are well recognized and worth the money . Back a few years ago there was a forum called OurDarkSkies.com . A member there invented those actions . If I remember his first name was Noel and I think his last name is Carbonini . I maybe wrong on the name , not sure. But he use to let us dedicated astronomy members try the betas of all those actions. The forum ended up closing and I know he sells them now and has been very profitable for him and he deserves every penny , he's a good person . I also have a set of those actions. He used some of my images for testing , made them look great ! But if you have his actions you have some great plugins! He use to edit some images for NASAs' Hubble Space Telescope. I wish that forum was still going. It was a great friendly forum. Best one I ever been a member of . A few members here were also members there also. Nighthound (Steve) was one of them . That was a forum of many many old timers of amateur astronomers like me . Most good old days are gone now. A lot of new newbies are changing how things are done today. Old timers used telescopes, film cameras and edited images the old way. Nowadays you have software that does everything for you and mounts to that hold cameras but never s scope and those who use them never will never truly know what it is like to observe the night sky through a scope and see DSOs' with the real eye, only in images and they get praised for their edits. Those will never know the peace in the night sky. I feel sorry for those that never experience true scope viewing. Clear skies to ya !

Those were the days Ron, great fun and great people. I learned so much during that time, mainly due to the others there that were willing to share their knowledge, no big egos or elite types. I'm trying to delay falling into the "Old Timers" category though so go easy. Never mind, that ship has sailed. It's a shame ODS went away, it had a very cool vibe.

True, those were the good old days! Outside of images all were posting I always enjoyed reading those stories of those who would write most of their view time . Made me excited so that next time I'd try finding what they observed. If you remember there were a couple that did that art sketching of DSOs' they viewed. Really neat for that freehand art. I doubt anyone even does that now at all . Yep, it was a great forum and I miss being there .