Ngc 6188

[vlazg (George)]

Its been a while since i posted anything,this is the first in over a year..
A scooter accident in Rarotonga broke a few bones.


4.5 hrs HaRGB


Processed in Pixinsight, i have an artifact from a bad column, i'll have ti increase the amount of dithering.


Higher res here https://www.astrobin.com/408009/?nc=user


Good to be back


George

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! Excellent shot mate. Gorgeous colours.

[markas (Mark)]

Nice Image!


BTW, you can easily remove the effects of a bad column in Pixinsight.


You do this in Cosmetic Correction by going to 'Use Defect List', pixel peeping one of the subframes, and loading and saving the coordinates (in pixels) of the offending column - column number, and row start and finish. Just save the file for use in future: you only have to do this once. Several bad columns can be dealt with in this way.



I have found that the above is vastly better than trying to remove by dither.


Mark

[vlazg (George)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! Excellent shot mate. Gorgeous colours.

Thanks Marc, im fairly pleased with the result

Originally Posted by markas

Nice Image!


BTW, you can easily remove the effects of a bad column in Pixinsight.


You do this in Cosmetic Correction by going to 'Use Defect List', pixel peeping one of the subframes, and loading and saving the coordinates (in pixels) of the offending column - column number, and row start and finish. Just save the file for use in future: you only have to do this once. Several bad columns can be dealt with in this way.



I have found that the above is vastly better than trying to remove by dither.


Mark

Thanks Mark, i tried it and it works beautifully.
Cheers

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Very well done. We particularly like the way you've brought out the various complex and braided dust-lanes, especially those toward 4 o'clock, which if you rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise, look like either a volcano with smoke coming out, or perhaps a hide-and-sticks tepee, similarly with smoke coming out the top.

[vlazg (George)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Very well done. We particularly like the way you've brought out the various complex and braided dust-lanes, especially those toward 4 o'clock, which if you rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise, look like either a volcano with smoke coming out, or perhaps a hide-and-sticks tepee, similarly with smoke coming out the top.

Thanks M&T
I think your imagination is a bit more esoteric than mine, i looked again and i think i can make out what you can see. I tried to find something else but all i could see was, if you rotate 180 deg, there seems to be a rather cheerful gummy shark emerging from the centre towards top left, maybe too much time with the grandkids, starting to think like them.