> COLOR RESTORATION AFTER RAW FILES STACK IN 16 BITS
If you have used DeepSky stacker to stack RAW files, maybe you have notice that the resulting image is poor of color saturation. This is because it has a higher number of bits then the display could show. Going to less bits per Chanel we are loosing information so it is good idea to do any touches as early as possible. DeepSky stacker give us tool to achieve correct color balance and increase luminosity and saturation. The best color balanced image has all the 3 channel (RGB) histograms overlapped. You can adjust this as well as increase intensity of high lights and shadows (correct the background). Finally use the saturation slider to achieve the colors. But be careful with the color noise.
Below: NGC 7635 Bubble Nebula 06.09.2015. Pentax k-5, 30 frames x 30s. ISO 51200. UHC-S Oxygen III and Hydrogen alpha pass filter. Telescope SW 200pds, F1000mm 1:5. The “bubble” is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot young central star. At the upper left M52 Open Cluster. At the upper right – upcoming cloud
While cleaning up my PC I found sequences of shots of Virgo galaxy cluster taken during springs of the last 2 years. Those were attempts to shot this object, but I was not satisfied with the result and left them.
I recently bought a pocket spectroscope for laboratory use. You can find it at Ali for 5$. It is with glass prism and well build. So I did some test to use with a telescope but did not
http://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html This is an amazing resource. Detailed atlas of all the sky with NGC and IC objects.
Reading a new product that claims to be 100x time more powerful then conventional telescope, I realise that this is just an astrograph with a digital camera that is doing stacked images and show them trought eyepiece or App.
I am so impressed with the K5 ability to quickly gather signal from nebulas (Quantum efficiency) and galaxies, so I decide to take one more K5 and to remove the IR-cut Filter of the old one.
