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Oh, I was seeing interesting texture in luminosity, as you probably were - monochrome is great for contrast. But when you add in color, and similar colors are adjacent, the eye blends and flattens. The only way I can see to preserve that texture is for the colors to be more differentiated along that...

Ivo, Thanks! I'm pretty sure I tried the D5300 profile + cycling through all of the presets, and I was on the beta. That's a more artistic result than I was able to achieve. It may not have the color accuracy that you favor, but with the wider color differentiation, the texture of the nebulosity sho...

Wayne, Imaging train: Nikon D5300 -> 0.8 Reducer -> Optolong CLS-CCD filter -> Stellarvue 120EDT (f6.1, approx f4.8 net w/reducer). Still testing the reducer - its spacing probably still needs work. Tried mixed exposures to bring out detail without blowing out the center: 19 @ 30s 69 @ 90s 11 @ 180s...

Thanks, Ivo!

Thanks, Ivo! I guess what I was expecting to see was more variation in shading, particularly of the reds, and more relative brightness (and possibly variation) in the blues. Here's a link to a roughly comparable image, taken with Astronomik's CLS-CCD filter, which delivers almost the same spectrum s...

Ivo, I'm wondering if you can take a look at my M43? https://www.amazon.ca/clouddrive/share/opZ8RdwyYgLwfSGDkGaAjkUlJsnArQWEX3PHJxvz8t3 I've tried this with 1.6.386 and have no real difficulty bringing out interesting detail in Luminance, but when I get to Color, it's pretty much all-one-thing-or-an...

Ivo, The CLS-CCD stack is 21x600s + 10x300s = ~4hr:20, plus flats and dark flats. Interesting how we look for different things - you pick up on star color and I pick up on the texture of the nebulosity - that's what I was trying to emphasize, while trying to dial down the fuschia and not getting ove...

Ivo, Thanks for your help with this. The colormunki did make some changes, but fairly minor. Anyway... did that, and pulled 1.6380 down before taking another run at this. Turned out much better, but regardless, the combined CLS-CCD + 610-680nm Red stack actually produces a poorer / less distinct ima...

Pausing this, pending monitor calibration.

- Bob

Ivo, Thanks, as always for the help! For my part I rather liked, and was focusing on, the texture of the nebulosity in the wipe [color] rendition, vs. same in the Color module - but yes, the star colors are clearly not there. Anyway... I've put a Colormunki on order and will take another run at this...