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Old 29-05-2019, 08:25 AM
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Centaurus A

Just a hair over 10hrs on this old favourite. Seeing was average to poor and my issues with elongation persist... I did, however, do a decent job with motion blur deconvolution to reduce the elongation in post processing, so I'll call that a win.

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Old 29-05-2019, 08:47 AM
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Lovely detail Lee.
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Old 29-05-2019, 08:56 AM
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Very nice Lee, good detail and colour considering the seeing. I can tell you that Mike will be seeing worms Deconvolution can be a difficult mistress.
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Old 29-05-2019, 08:57 AM
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Nice one Lee. The core is well resolved and you've hidden any star elongation issues well. You've managed to capture some faint fingers of dust extending out from the core as well.
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Old 29-05-2019, 11:01 AM
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I can tell you that Mike will be seeing worms Deconvolution can be a difficult mistress.
...was just looking at Lee's image Col and then read your comment...aaand you are spot on! Am I that easy to predict?

Sorry Lee, forgive my humour at the expense of your decon, yes I can see the decon .. but other than that, it is a decent looking image with great colour in particular

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Old 29-05-2019, 03:01 PM
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Lovely detail Lee.
Thanks Chris :-)

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Nice one Lee. The core is well resolved and you've hidden any star elongation issues well. You've managed to capture some faint fingers of dust extending out from the core as well.
Thanks Rod

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Very nice Lee, good detail and colour considering the seeing. I can tell you that Mike will be seeing worms Deconvolution can be a difficult mistress.
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...was just looking at Lee's image Col and then read your comment...aaand you are spot on! Am I that easy to predict?

Sorry Lee, forgive my humour at the expense of your decon, yes I can see the decon .. but other than that, it is a decent looking image with great colour in particular

Mike
No offence taken, Mike. I've become complacent with my decon, it seems. I usually push it pretty hard, to the point where it's looking a bit wormy to me, but I typically get away with it. Apparently not this time! Not sure I can be bothered reprocessing it again yet, might save it for a rainy day.

Cheers guys.

Looks like I got another top pick on Astrobin too... that makes 5/6 of my recent images that got either top pick or IOTD... on a roll! Now if only I could learn to process my (L)RGB nebulae images...
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Old 29-05-2019, 03:24 PM
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Looks like I got another top pick on Astrobin too... that makes 5/6 of my recent images that got either top pick or IOTD... on a roll! Now if only I could learn to process my (L)RGB nebulae images...
Well see?..there you go, not everyone is so paranoid about decon worms and dotified detail

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Old 29-05-2019, 06:43 PM
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Hi Lee,
you've got so many beautiful images on Astrobin.
You are definitely on a roll.
Yes - I can see the decon worms too if I go to full resolution
but that would be easy to back step on if you've saved versions for every major change?


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Old 29-05-2019, 09:20 PM
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I'd suggest working on the acquisition side of your data...a tiny improvement of collimation, guiding corrections and even keeping super clean optics can improve the real resolution of an image...

Sadly de-con can often end up as all style.... but no substance. By all means
it can be used to great effect, but unfortunately can't create detail/resolution on its own.

I think of it like Formula 1: tiny increments in all aspects of the machine to shave just that little bit off each lap time: that is what will get you on the podium.

Minor quibbles aside, a solid Cent A rendition.
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Old 30-05-2019, 07:25 AM
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Can see the decon vermiculae folks have mentioned, but can also see the relativistic jet heading off toward top left ()
and the tiny "superman" symbol in streaky dust is very clear against the general glow of the galaxy toward 6 o'clock. Colours look solid and convincing.

A very pleasing image.

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Old 31-05-2019, 03:26 PM
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Cheers guys. I've reprocessed the image with more careful use of decon. Also did a tiny bit better on the stars.
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Old 31-05-2019, 04:44 PM
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Great colours Lee, you’ve made what I’ve always thought was an ugly target look great! Well done!
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Old 31-05-2019, 06:21 PM
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Thanks Andy I'm surprised to hear you consider this an ugly target, I've always quite liked it
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That's a lovely 5128 Lee. Deep, detailed and with great colours.
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Yup! Much better, great repro Lee.

Top shot ...really is an amazing galaxy...

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Old 03-06-2019, 05:56 PM
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Great shot Lee, congratulations.

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Old 04-06-2019, 06:22 PM
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Thanks very much Pete, Mike and Rob :-)
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Thanks very much Pete, Mike and Rob :-)
Gotta be happy with that.

Really, really solid re-pro.
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Old 05-06-2019, 09:35 PM
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Top shot Lee. The repro's on the money.
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A great image Lee. I tried really hard to see the infamous worms...but could not, and then I read further comments you re-processed the image.

Me like it
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