Description: I had a fluke clear sky that lasted for about two hours and was able to get some Ha. This is my first HaLRGB, and I struggled with the processing. I'm not quite there, but happy with the progress.
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Description: Ok, Final Rev for now. I changed the point in processing where I combined Ha to Red, and was able to get a bit more control over it. The spirals are back to blue, stars are back to orange, and the overall effect of Ha is a bit more subtle. How does this look?
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Description: While I feel that I have been making progress on this image, Rev C still did not satisfy me. The addition of Ha was nice, but I lost the warm glow of the galaxy core. For this revision, I combined Ha to the Red channel at 50/50 BEFORE combining for RGB. This plugged in the Ha where I wanted it, but did not overpower the rest of the galaxy, allowing blues to be natural and the core to retain the warmer glow. This has been a super challenging image for me, but finally, I am happy with the result.
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Description: For this revision I utilized arcsinh stretch for the RGB integration. This allowed me to retain a TON of color data that I washed out with my previous histogram stretch. This includes the orange glow in the galaxy core as well as the blue and red in the spiral arms particularly near the galaxy core. Stars across the image have better colors as well, particularly the fainter orange stars.
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Description: For this revision I utilized arcsinh stretch for the RGB integration. This allowed me to retain a TON of color data that I washed out with my previous histogram stretch. This includes the orange glow in the galaxy core as well as the blue and red in the spiral arms particularly near the galaxy core. Stars across the image have better colors as well, particularly the fainter orange stars. -
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