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ballaratdragons
25-03-2007, 12:15 AM
Here is the final processing of my image of Centaurus 'A' with a Modded Toucam.

Bert restacked and reprocessed it from the raw images I sent him. He stacked the brighter ones with RegiStar as well as the dim ones.
That gave him two images that he then got rid of any gradients with
GradXterminator. Then used EasyHDR to produce an image with more dynamic
range. That is why the stars look better as they came from the dimmer image.
Photoshop to clean up hot pixels and some levels and curves. Then he even used a bit of Richardson Lucy enhancement to get better detail in the Galaxy.

After Bert returned the final image, all I did was run it through Loreal to take care of the Black-eyed stars.

Thanks Bert :thumbsup:

Philips Modified Toucam 840k Pro II webcam, ED80 on EQ6 with Skyscan, hand guided, several images of varying exposure times from 1 minute to 5 minutes. Then processed as above.

DobDobDob
25-03-2007, 12:22 AM
Way to go Ken, it looks awesome :thumbsup:

Ric
25-03-2007, 12:26 AM
Very nice Ken, you and Bert have done a great job on Centaurus A.

Cheers

RB
25-03-2007, 02:19 AM
:eyepop:
That is fantastic Ken !!
You and Bert have done a wonderful job.

Congrats.

EzyStyles
25-03-2007, 04:27 AM
that toucam does wonders! keep it up ken :)

OneOfOne
26-03-2007, 08:27 AM
I'm impressed.

My two words worth...

iceman
26-03-2007, 09:26 AM
Excellent processing. one of the best ToUcam galaxy shots I've seen!

jjjnettie
26-03-2007, 10:03 AM
You've both done a fantastic job!
Brilliant.

Tamtarn
26-03-2007, 10:32 AM
Great effort Ken :thumbsup: the added processing makes it a Toucam stunner :)