Was hoping for more data and better skies... but then again, aren't we always? Good news is that I learned to take advantage of crappy seeing to get more RGB so some nights I would have usually packed up on still proved productive.
An absolute ball-tearing cracker of an image! - I attempted this recently but was thwarted by clouds and iffy collimation.
Here you've shown me what's possible and it's absolutely inspirational. Well done, hats off to you sir!
Thank you for the hint with collecting RGB on the nights with worse seeing - I just started imaging session and a few Lum subs I got this evening are just not usable - but after reading your post I switched to collecting RGB - happy days!
Thank you for the hint with collecting RGB on the nights with worse seeing - I just started imaging session and a few Lum subs I got this evening are just not usable - but after reading your post I switched to collecting RGB - happy days!
Actually that is excellent advice, and easier to miss/dismiss if you're busy going for sheer mass of data.
That's an astonishing image Lee. It has everything: sharp detail in the interacting core, squillions of faint distant galaxies, the faintest extensions of the antennae including a hint of the bit where it curves back at top left, and beautiful colours. The detail looks convincing and solid. The black point is nicely set too, which helps with the faint stuff.
An absolute ball-tearing cracker of an image! - I attempted this recently but was thwarted by clouds and iffy collimation.
Here you've shown me what's possible and it's absolutely inspirational. Well done, hats off to you sir!
haha, thanks again Andy!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Another excellent galaxy image Lee, you are on bloody fire lovin it,
Mike
Cheers Mike! It's been fun but it looks like my run is at an end for a time... no more clear skies and my focuser may be acting up again (was complaining it reached its outer limit switch at 16k steps, when it has 28k steps... fingers crossed it's nothing a recal won't fix!)
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Very slick...no doubt many will use this rendition as a gold standard from here on
Well done!
Thanks Peter
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Fantastic image Lee.
Thank you for the hint with collecting RGB on the nights with worse seeing - I just started imaging session and a few Lum subs I got this evening are just not usable - but after reading your post I switched to collecting RGB - happy days!
Thanks Suavi Glad to hear that hint served you well, I'll definitely be using it in future too. The other side of it is to make sure you leverage those good nights on L, because you can get RGB basically any time. I usually just do BLLRG<repeat> with one dither every 4 frames in there for efficiency purposes, but I think in future I'll go to LL<dither> on those good nights now.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
That's an astonishing image Lee. It has everything: sharp detail in the interacting core, squillions of faint distant galaxies, the faintest extensions of the antennae including a hint of the bit where it curves back at top left, and beautiful colours. The detail looks convincing and solid. The black point is nicely set too, which helps with the faint stuff.
Thanks Mike! Yeah, I was hoping to bring out those Antennae more, but I think I need more data. Amusingly I think I did a better job with those 3yrs ago with 1/3 of the data and the Esprit 120.
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Originally Posted by Benjamin
Stunning. Like all your images I am lost for words (which is the point right!). Wonderful to see what is possible through a fast 8” Newt.
lovin it, 
