Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin
Another close up 127mm triplet image (an incredibly detailed 11 hours) compared to a CDK14 image (36 hours or so). The 127mm looks pretty cool on Facebook, but even then, how could you feel okay doing this to the detail in your data (assuming this is a result of excessive AI sharpening)? I guess to give an ‘impression’ of sharpness or detail at a certain scale? Is that a thing??! Maybe I’m just a bit too in the realist camp at present...
|
I don't see anything wrong with sharpening if it works. When it failed for me it usually accentuated noise or wrecked the stars.
The CDK data must have been under terrible seeing as there is no way a 127 low end refractor is going to compete with a properly collimated and decent seeing CDK14.
Unless it was lots of short sub lucky imaging shots using a CMOS camera versus long exposure CCD.
Longer focal length has the achilles heel of requiring better seeing.
Greg.