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Old 05-10-2019, 06:57 AM
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30hrs on the Grus triplet

This was basically a filler in between other targets, but I ended up accumulating a lot of RGB due to poor seeing... figured it was a waste to get so much blurry RGB and not get a decent amount of L to go with it. So what started out as a filler turned out to be my longest integration to date.

Coolest thing about this field, besides the fact that the obvious attractions are approx. 75mly distant, is the plethora of background galaxies.

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Old 05-10-2019, 06:59 AM
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Awesome result Lee - doing what you do best!
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Old 05-10-2019, 08:25 AM
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That is quite nice Lee. Detail is excellent and background quite smooth. Colour looks great.
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Old 05-10-2019, 08:43 AM
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Nice work Lee.
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Old 05-10-2019, 08:50 AM
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Excellent work Lee, this shows that nothing beats sheer quantity of data for a smooth result
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Old 05-10-2019, 09:12 AM
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Wow Lee...one of the best Grus triplet images I have ever seen, you have turned what I have always considered a rather boring group of galaxies into a detailed colour fest love it.

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Old 05-10-2019, 09:25 AM
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Breathtaking and definitive. The Lee Deep Field.

The big galaxy at about 4 o'clock has a hole in it toward bottom left, rather like NGC 247.

Superb work.
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Old 05-10-2019, 09:26 AM
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Wow - NGC 7582 in particular is presented exquisitely
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Old 05-10-2019, 10:01 AM
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Great stuff Lee - a superb image.
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Old 05-10-2019, 01:53 PM
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Well done Lee. Shows the value in lots of exposure.
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Old 05-10-2019, 02:53 PM
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Amazing image with wonderful detail and colour. I love the way the galaxies just hover in space.
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Old 05-10-2019, 04:14 PM
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Hey Lee, Ive had a good look at this image on a good big monitor (my first post was based on the view on my phone) and it is an amazing image of these three babies ...but viewing at full resolution, there is some funky sharpening/detail extraction going on there ...particularly there is a section in the largest galaxy that almost looks like part of Jupiters cloud belts, that I haven't seen before in this galaxy ...what is going on there? Is this from a specific sharpening routine you use?

Just in case the motivation of this post is misinterpreted, may I emphasis that I am not doing a form of infamous roll-over style attempt at discrediting here , I'm just curious, it looks incredible

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Old 05-10-2019, 04:24 PM
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Love it. The three big siblings are nicely offset by that extremely busy background of galaxies
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Old 05-10-2019, 04:38 PM
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Awesome result Lee - doing what you do best!
Thanks very much Andy :-)

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That is quite nice Lee. Detail is excellent and background quite smooth. Colour looks great.
Thanks Paul!

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Nice work Lee.
Thanks Glen

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Excellent work Lee, this shows that nothing beats sheer quantity of data for a smooth result
Thanks Colin :-) I did do a reasonable amount of noise reduction on this one too, but I think it's fairly subtle when viewed at normal brightness. I often don't use much or any noise reduction on my luminance data, so combined with the longer integration this one is especially smooth.

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Wow Lee...one of the best Grus triplet images I have ever seen, you have turned what I have always considered a rather boring group of galaxies into a detailed colour fest love it.

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Thanks Mike I thought I remembered you saying you didn't think much of this group once before... I just like three reasonable sized galaxies in the one field, but I really love all the background fuzzies.

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Breathtaking and definitive. The Lee Deep Field.

The big galaxy at about 4 o'clock has a hole in it toward bottom left, rather like NGC 247.

Superb work.
haha thanks Mike :-) Have to say, cruising around this image reminded me of the hubble deep field; one of the images that got me into this whole game.

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Wow - NGC 7582 in particular is presented exquisitely
Thanks Suavi :-) I think that one might be a bit oversharpened, but eh... nothing's ever perfect

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Great stuff Lee - a superb image.
Thanks Pete!

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Well done Lee. Shows the value in lots of exposure.
Thanks Peter :-) Yeah, my typical ~10hr images are looking pretty thin now...

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Amazing image with wonderful detail and colour. I love the way the galaxies just hover in space.
Thanks very much Ben :-)

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Hey Lee, Ive had a good look at this image on a good big monitor (my first post was based on the view on my phone) and it is an amazing image of these three babies ...but viewing at full resolution, there is some funky sharpening/detail extraction going on there ...particularly there is a section in the largest galaxy that almost looks like part of Jupiters cloud belts, that I haven't seen before in this galaxy ...what is going on there? Is this from a specific sharpening routine you use?

Just in case the motivation of this post is misinterpreted, may I emphasis that I am not doing a form of infamous roll-over style attempt at discrediting here , I'm just curious, it looks incredible

Mike
haha, can't get anything past you, Mike! Good pick up. I'm trialing out some AI software for both sharpening and noise reduction.

For sharpening on this image I did a very mild deconvolution on everything but the stars. From there I used AI sharpening which I applied to only the three main galaxies; I masked out everything else. I applied more on NGC 7582 than I did on NGC 7590 and NGC 7599, because 7582 had a kind of chunky look to the detail that I didn't like and that went away with more sharpening at the expense of some artefacts... which I prefer, but acknowledge isn't perfect

The noise reduction I used I turned right down to the lowest setting and even that was too strong. I ended up blending it back into the image at 60% opacity.
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Thanks very much Chris :-)
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haha, can't get anything past you, Mike! Good pick up. I'm trialing out some AI software for both sharpening and noise reduction.

For sharpening on this image I did a very mild deconvolution on everything but the stars. From there I used AI sharpening which I applied to only the three main galaxies; I masked out everything else. I applied more on NGC 7582 than I did on NGC 7590 and NGC 7599, because 7582 had a kind of chunky look to the detail that I didn't like and that went away with more sharpening at the expense of some artefacts... which I prefer, but acknowledge isn't perfect

The noise reduction I used I turned right down to the lowest setting and even that was too strong. I ended up blending it back into the image at 60% opacity.
Knew it ...decon, wavelets now AI huh?....hmmm?..I'm getting too old for all this, I'm still locked in the unsharpmasked era ...artificial vs natural...

Where will it all end?

Great job Lee, luv yer work

Mike
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that is one amazing trio!! lovely and smooth, really beautiful.
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Old 05-10-2019, 06:56 PM
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that is one amazing trio!! lovely and smooth, really beautiful.
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Bortle 3? Really? Want to swap for a 6 ?

Like your work Lee.

Really fine star profiles, plus the colour is excellent.
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