August Mersing Milky

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August Mersing Milky

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hope to get some comments from the regulars here on post processing.
Pictures taken with the Pentax K5 with FA 77Ltd and Tamron 28-74. max iso 3200, exposure under 15 sec.
PP was done with PS.

1. Orion with cluster (77mm)
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2. I was told this is the 7 sisters ? (77mm)
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3. Scorpious (28mm)
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4. 77mm on the milky
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5. another milky (28mm)
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Hi friend, good data, may be can bring up the intensity & brightness, then do a Gaussian blur, it will look a bit brighter like this, tks. n.b. (seek ur pemission herin to re-process as an eg. only)
Nero 7 Photo snap processed.jpg
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Nice photos! Thanks for sharing.
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If not for Orion, I would have assumed Image 2 is M6 the Butterfly Cluster! Thanks for sharing....:)
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PETER LOO wrote:Hi friend, good data, may be can bring up the intensity & brightness, then do a Gaussian blur, it will look a bit brighter like this, tks. n.b. (seek ur pemission herin to re-process as an eg. only)
Nero 7 Photo snap processed.jpg
isn't that abit too ... yellowish ? but it does looks to bring out abit more details. thanks for the advise.
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