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[bluescope]

Hi All

My latest image of NGC253 with my SW Newt ! Can't wait to get my WO FLT-110 Apo and have a crack at this again. This had hideous light gradients due to my location .... oh for a dark sky :(

11x360sec ST2000XCM
254mm F4.7 Newt ... EQ6 Pro
self guided in CCDOPS
RGB's stacked in DSS
GradientXTerminator, levels etc in PS CS3

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p.s. Just uploaded original rgb stack to show light gradient.

[beren]

Gday Steve very nice NGC253 :)......Interesting to see the original raw image and the effect of LP

[bluescope]

Yeah surrounded by lots of nasties here !

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[peeb61]

Geezz! Don't you just love this galaxy? And Steve I might add you have done yourself proud, great image, colour, very sharp......just perfect.

Paul

[Bassnut]

Not bad Steve, nice colour balance. A tad noisy, perhaps 10-15min subs?

Thats a huge gradient, did you get rid of it just with GradientXTerminator, or did you also use flats?

[bluescope]

I remember first seeing this galaxy in my Meade DSX90AT Mak when I lived in darker sky area, just a faint blurr, but visible and I have been trying to get a satisfactory image with my Newts ever since. Still trying .....

Glad you like it Paul.

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Had to pull levels down a lot first in CS3 then GXT .... damn .... I just realised I only did a coarse GXT .... I'll have to do fine application as well and see how it looks.

Cheers Fred.

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[Bassnut]

Well, GXT is pretty effective anyway tho, nice work.

[gregbradley]

Nice image.

What type of Newt do you have?

Greg.

[bluescope]

Thanks Greg.

I have a 200mm F5 and a 254mm F4.7 ... both SkyWatcher. Image was done with 254mm.

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