Re-processed Leo and Bodes
March 15th, 2010
I’ve spent some time over the last few evenings working on getting better colour correction and I’m happy to have made reasonable progress to the point where I have re-processed my last two galaxy images, have a look and see what you think .
Both galaxies show much more natural colour than before, and allow for a greater stretch and a much easier to manage background colour.
The same with the Leo triplet, m66 especially is showing more detail in the structure.
I’m very happy with the progress on these two images, thanks to a great deal of assistance from John Murphy in the use of Iris and some very useful directions for taking better flat frames. The next step is to image a g2v type star during imaging session to work as a correct reference for my colour correction.
Tim – these reprocessed images look great. The colour do indeed look more natural and your image processing is progressing very well. Good job. Let’s hope for some clear skies soon
Hi Dave, sorry for the late reply! Yep, I’m pretty happy with those results, though now I’ve remembered to track down a G2V star and image that I should be able to improve on these results. Lets hope for a clear weekend.