reprocessed old omega image

[leon]

Hi Guys,

Due to moon, clouds and all that stuff, i went through some earlier images and found this one of Omega Centauri, imaged early July, i consider it one of the better ones i have done of late.

Processing is not to great, but i'm getting there.

It consists of 20 exposures at 400 IS0 for 35 sec's, each unguided through 300mm F/2.8 Canon Lens on G11 mount, in camera darks, no flats, image is heavily cropped. but seems to hold it together fairly well.

Cheers Leon :thumbsup:

[dugnsuz]

The image file compression for posting on IIS looks quite severe (blocky stars) - or is that an artefact of processing and cropping??? Nonetheless a lovely pic. The shear number of stars resolved is amazing. That Canon lens is a beaut!
Cheers
Doug

[leon]

You are right Doug, don"t think i will post anymore until i get this stuff under control, the resizing seems to be the problem.

Leon

[Ric]

Hi Leon, you can still tell there is a great image hiding underneath despite the compression. When you sort it out your going to have some lovely images to post.

Cheers

[iceman]

No don't stop posting Leon!! We'll help you through this.

Are you using photoshop CS/CS2/CS3?

[leon]

Thanks Guys, yep i will get through this Mike, especially after today, Ken actually came to my place and showed me how to resize in PS2, I never knew it existed, now things should be better. ;)

Gee's you guys would not want to know how i used to resize. :whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[iceman]

We're here to help, Leon!

Good on you Ken!

We're happy to talk you through it - because there could be others who also weren't sure how to do it without introducing horrible compression artifacts.

[Dr Nick]

Hmm, I would get ken to come and show me too, but we live over 1000kms away...

Nice pic! ;)

[Garyh]

Thats a pretty good omega closeup Leon for the 300mm lense!!! I don`t think the 200mm one can quiet keep up with it..!!!
I find that deepsky pics usually compress better than the widefield shots due to the huge amount of stars etc in the image. If it looks too blocky and has artifacts I usually upload the image to the IIS ftp server at a lower compression.
Keep at it Leon!!!
cheers Gary