Cone and Fox Fur

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Comment by Josh Lake on January 27, 2013 at 6:49am

Some nasty gradients, sure, but no match for PixInsight's background extraction! I did a bit of a rush job, but any residual gradients were just pushed down to the background. The galaxy data is quite excellent!

I took screenshots of my whole (rush job) process if you want to see PI in action.

Comment by Josh Lake on January 26, 2013 at 8:26pm

Fred, do you have the original raw TIFF master? I think I can handle the color calibration while it's still linear and unstretched.

Comment by Josh Lake on January 26, 2013 at 6:40am

Haven't tried the the double star yet, I'll take a look.

For the gradients, I find that Automatic BE is a great first pass, then clean up with DBE. Want me to give it a shot? I'm no miracle worker, but I've seldom been let down by PI's background extraction with the right settings.

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on January 25, 2013 at 2:18pm

Hell, I'd be happy too :)

Comment by Josh Lake on January 25, 2013 at 10:08am

Thanks! I've heard some feedback that it might be too overdone, so I may do another round of processing with a gentler hand. Here's the processing history if you're interested:

http://imgur.com/a/TRV21

Comment by Trevor Jones on January 25, 2013 at 8:26am

Id be happy with it too... Fantastic work!