LDN1400 Dark Matter in Holiday Colors

[Comet Hunter]

LDN1400 (2) nights worth about 16 hrs of 5 min subs. 102 SVX, 2600mc using a IR/cut
That was a tough one to capture and process
Do you think the background is too dark or over saturated?

 

[JimFox]

This is really cool! Dark nebulas is something I need to work towards capturing. They aren't easy for sure. This could be just a hair brighter? I think I like the saturation level.

 

[Comet Hunter]

This is really cool! Dark nebulas is something I need to work towards capturing. They aren't easy for sure. This could be just a hair brighter? I think I like the saturation level.

thanks I will try add 1/2 or 1 f stop to see what happens

 

[Comet Hunter]

Brighter still? this was +1 f stop

 

[Comet Hunter]

In Astro, I don't know what is good for either one. But I can provide a technical view of the degree thereof in the OP.

In the GIMP, it is possible to decompose an image into it's color components. In this case, I selected Hue, Saturation, and Lightness (HSL). Here's the saturation map. Saturation is represented by level, 0=none 255=100% ...

The histogram tells us that the average sat. is 6% and the median value, half-way between highest and lowest, is 1.8%, FWIW.

There seems to be a 'black hole' in the middle, sucking in infinite amounts of saturation.

P.S. If celestial body hues are of interest, it is also possible to extract the OP Hues at constant Saturation and Lightness, a trick allowing me to show the hues as RGB colors, not levels.

Anyone interested?

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[xpatUSA]

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I just accidentally deleted my earlier post but fortunately you quoted it in full. So, talking about the hue of celestial bodies ...

So I extracted the hues from the original and added then as a new layer. The problem with that was that all levels got a color because I had set the Lightness to filled with about 80%.

Fortunately, GIMP allowed me to apply the 'subtract' blending mode giving me this:

Comments welcome.

P.S. Not real pleased with the result. I'll try again sometime

 

[Mike Lewis]

Dark nebulae are not easy. I do not yet have a shot of one I am truly totally happy with. Perhaps a brightness between 1 and 2 for me.

ML