Introduction and first work with PixInsight: Triangulum Galaxy

[Daniel_Guetl]

Hello Community,

I'd like to introduce myself, my Name is Daniel, I'm from Austria, studying Chemistry (hopefuly soon specialisation in biochemistry) at the university of Graz, and in my free time (literally all of my free time) image processing and astrophotography.

Yesterday I downloaded a trial licence of your wonderful program and gave it a try. Well here it is:


(click on the image for 100% full resolution)

Image aquisition data:

9x10min L
8x10min RG
6x10min B

total: 310min oder 5.2 hours

please find the equipment here: http://astrostyria.at/index.php?item_id=65

Would be grateful if the pros here could comment and give me some hints...maybe on how to refine the structures further.

My first opinion is that pixinsight is a lot more easy and intuitiv for image processing than photoshop...a lot of guys told me..."nah...too complicated". Well, if you work through the first hours with the tutorials I didn't find it so complicated. Of course there are a lot of function in there, where I have absolutely no clue what they do, but with time comes knowledge

kind regards

Daniel

[Lex]

Daniel,

Really Nice Image!
Did you use HDRWT to give the galaxy more depth?
Then you could perhaps stretch the luminance component in Curves ti lighten up a bit the Spiral Arms and the Backgound..

Otherwise there is really no significant problem with your image!

Regards

[tsaban]

Very nice and natural image Daniel!

Clear skies
Tahir

[Daniel_Guetl]

Hello Lex & Tahir,

many thanks for the positive feedback!

@Lex

yea, used HDRWT and the enhance dark details script, both are great! will check if there are more details hidden in the luminance...

regards

Daniel

[Daniel_Guetl]

Hallo,

I did a complete rework of the Image, with the new techniques i learned from a friend.



from my point of view this is far better.

regards

Daniel

[georg.viehoever]

Yes, much bettet. Congratulations!

[oldwexi]

Hi Daniel!
Yes, much better. Good progress.

Aloha

[Lex]

Daniel,

Better; nice work!

Best

[Ginge]

Definately a lot better Lex! Congrats on a good job. What were the changes in the processing procedure?

Best regards,
Ginge

[Daniel_Guetl]

Many thanks for the positive replies.

@Ginge

Gerald (oldwexi) showed me how to apply masks, and use the masked stretch, i guess that was the biggest improvement. the first image was processed without a single mask.

regards

Daniel