Wednesday, March 21, 2007

United we stand, divided we...


This data was collected over the previous weekend. After the end of this data collection my laptop conked out and lost it's mind. Won’t boot anymore. The image is 7x10 light and 12x10 dark frames. The flat and bias were collected on my Mac then using iCCD but I screwed up and the data is invalid now. Cannot open them anymore. The processing is very basic and I took a new approach and am very happy with it. Instead of splitting the frames into LRGB and then processing each channel individually, I calibrated and combined the light frames without splitting. I then converted it into RGB in Maxim and brought the tiff file into Photoshop and processed the various channels. The results are very pleasing! There is still some coma in this image which should be taken care of by the MPCC which I am yet to receive. Also I would probably benefit with some stretch and DDP in this image to tease out more of the details. All said and done, I think I will be processing my future images this way as opposed to splitting them before working on them.

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