Continuing the processing of my big M31 project, which was very unfortunately taken while I was still having some flatness issues. It affects some of the outside stars if you look (don't look).
L : 72x300 + 120x30
RGB : 24x600 each
MyT, SV80ST, QSI 683wsg-8
Luckily, I was just about to start this when ArcsinhStretch was released. It is very easy to use - I like it already. I compared it to Masked Stretch and Hist.Trans and it clearly provides much better color information. Color in this image was not touched except for a very, very light curves saturation to the whole image; otherwise, it is exactly what the (also new) PCC tool and ArcsinhStretch produced. It begs the question - is is just bringing out color to a more natural extent than the others are able to or is it saturating things beyond what is 'really' there? I'm not sure, but the results are nice either way. Please enjoy and I'll take any and all suggestions for improvement or rework. Of course, the full version, linked below, is much nicer (as always)
http://www.astrobin.com/full/316529/0/Thanks for looking
Mike