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.
Low res / capture details here
High res here
Full res here
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.
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
That is quite nice Lee. Detail is excellent and background quite smooth. Colour looks great.
Thanks Paul!
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Originally Posted by glend
Nice work Lee.
Thanks Glen
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Originally Posted by Atmos
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.
Mike
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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Originally Posted by Placidus
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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Originally Posted by Slawomir
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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Originally Posted by Retrograde
Great stuff Lee - a superb image.
Thanks Pete!
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Originally Posted by peter_4059
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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Originally Posted by Benjamin
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.
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...