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.
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.
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
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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Originally Posted by Atmos
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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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
...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...
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
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?
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.
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.