Here's 2 of my recent edits, both were a huge learning curve in Morphological Transformation.
Reflection Nebula in Corona Australis, with NGC6723 and friends... I imaged with a Canon 5D MarkIII, Orion 8" Astrograph, Celestron CgemDX, Baader MPCC, SSAG (PHD2). I was very surprised with the quality as I've never used my 5D for DSOs. Even with this full frame camera I didn't have problems with vignetting after using Cory Schmitz's (@TheAstroShake) method of shooting flats.
Shooting flats for DSLR & CCD:
http://astroshake.com/2014/02/howto-dslr-and-ccd-flat-frames-for-astrophotography/The method of star reduction (MT) I used was based on this tutorial by Rogelio Bernal Andreo: Star size reduction via Morphological Transformations
http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2011/09/08/star-size-reduction-via-Morphological-.html And it worked very nicely.
Full resolution:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/90416/0/IC2944, Running Chicken NebulaAlso imaged using Orion 8" Astrograph, Celestron CgemDX, Baader MPCC, SSAG (PHD2), and a Canon 60Da.
This image was very difficult to get the MT working right, and it took me 2 months of sitting on data and re-editing to get the stars looking less like the dog's breakfast. I'd love to sound technical and smart - but here I found the simple, straight forward Erosion MT function (varying Amounts and iterations) yielded a better result. Truth: Editing / re-editing / overcomplicating things for 2 months. In the end I started from scratch and finished it within 2 hours. Possibly due to being fed up, but also spending the time learning on what DIDN'T look right.
Every time I edit I learn more and more about PI. There is no better software that compares - but damn..... it's a steep learning curve! But more rewarding when successful.
Thanks all for producing such great software.
Full resolution:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/102682/0/NOTE FROM THE FORUM ADMINISTRATORThis post does not comply with the
gallery rules. However, considering that the post provides links to useful image processing and acquisition resources, and that the images have been partially processed with PixInsight, we are going to make an exception allowing it. For successive submissions to the Gallery forum, please post images processed only with PixInsight. The images are very nice BTW
