M42 and beehive+saturn, skylux70, anyone want a challange?

J if only I could take pictures like Dave Lillis!
Seanie

and if only I had you non-existant light pollution :oops:

I bet you've found that its hard to remove the pollution and try keep the red of the nebula.

yupp

I cant remeber 100% what i did, but something like this.

Adjust color balance
highlights: -100, -100,-100
midtones:+100,+70,+70
shadows: -100,-50,-50
OK

Adjust color balance
highlights: -100, -35,0
midtones:+35,0,0
shadows: -30,-30.0
OK

I also used neatimage to remove noise

best seems to reduce red and green (highlights) so its kind of bluish, then reduse blue from midtones and increse red and green

if its lightpolution, why is it only centerd in the midle?

That bright centering (more like edge dimming) is called vignetting,
the chip in the canon is too big for the skylux and its 1.25inch barrel.

Here is some info on astro defects, section 9 in abberations covers this
www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1338

aha ok, nice site btw thx