NGC2997 - Reprocess

[David Fitz-Henr]

I spent a good deal of the weekend reprocessing this to deal with the star alignment issue first pointed out by strongmanmike (which is now fixed) as well as some small colour improvements suggested by Greg (Bradley). I think it is now as good as I can get it. The star alignment issue appears to have been a hiccup when I originally ran Registar, but as I mentioned in the original thread I found a minor "dark pixel" problem when using bicubic interpolation in Registar. I searched the internet for an explanation of this - see http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1992.0 (http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1992.0) for Juan Conejero's (Pixinsight) description of the bicubic problem. It seems that Marc's (multiweb) suggestion that it was caused by the "sharpness" of the stars was not far from the truth. I would be interested to hear from other Registar users' experiences here.

Anyway, here's the reprocessed image: http://upload.pbase.com/image/149199545

[Peter.M]

Now that is a cracking image!

[Larryp]

Lovely image, David-lots of detail :thumbsup:

[alpal]

That's perfect now - such a beautiful image.

You should get an IOTW for that. :)

[strongmanmike]

Very nicely done Dave, that's certainly better...careful or you'll get my reprocessing disease :P

Mike

[LewisM]

Gorgeous colours. Likin' every bit of it.

[peter_4059]

Tha's a great image David. The diffraction spikes really set it off.

[multiweb]

Very cool repro David. Awesome stuff. :thumbsup: My eyes hurt!

[RickS]

The original image was very good but the repro is a great improvement.

[marc4darkskies]

You nailed it David! :thumbsup::thumbsup: That's a wonderful image!

Cheers, Marcus

[Stevec35]

Very good indeed! A great NGC2997.

Cheers

Steve

[astronobob]

Brilliant result, Truly amaizing processing skills :2thumbs:

[Ross G]

Amazing photo David.

Definite "Best Of" candidate.

Ross.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Thanks Peter, Larry, Allan, Mike, Lewis, Peter, Marc, Rick, Marcus, Steve, Bob & Ross for your comments and original feedback which has made this repro possible!