Omega Cent in HD

[Peter Ward]

This is some old data that had been bugging me for some time, due registration errors.

While not completely gone they have been reduced...and presented below in High Def resolution.... it's a big file , about 2meg.

The image data is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery108.html)

[Mighty_oz]

Wow :)

[Ken Crawford]

Beautiful! That is one target I wish I was able to get before I shut down my observatory in Moorook. Wow!

[bartman]

Whoaha!!!!
:shrug:
Dont know what to say.......
:thanx:
bartman

[iceman]

Weather been getting you down, Pete? Resorting to old data :)

Lovely image, right in your face!

[jase]

Nicely done! Was the colour binned or is that the registration errors you mention?

[Peter Ward]

No, un binned. I suspect the seeing had a lot to do with the mis-match



Rain? what Rain?... Floods maybe :)



That'll do :)



Thanks Ken... This one's OK, but I suspect it needs to be captured during better seeing. On the "to do" list :)



Ta! :)

[DavidU]

Very nice indeed. Great colours very tidy processing.:thumbsup:

[mswhin63]

Beautiful job :thumbsup:

[SkyViking]

That's very nice and tight. Great to see an image of Omega with such resolution.

[gregbradley]

That's a very high impact image. I like the different star colours.

If seeing affected the different colours (I've had that happen to me where the seeing improved during the night or worsened, often blue cops it) perhaps different levels of deconvolution on the different colours to bring them to a similar size. I think PixInsight can do this as well.

Greg.

[Peter Ward]

Thanks mate.



Glad you like it.



Ta. Omega I suspect is an object that could have a real wow factor with great seeing and lots of focal length... Not quite there yet



Thanks Greg. I have no doubt seeing played a big part. Most stars had lovely symmetry, others didn't....humm ..very typical of fine structures in Solar/Lunar imaging:question:

Haven't played much with Pixelinsight....but hear it got many thumbs up at AAIC...another "to do" list item :)

[Osirisra]

Holly S#&t!, nice one!!

[multiweb]

One for the cool wall. :thumbsup:

[Hagar]

Magnificent Peter. The detail to the core is wonderful but being a bit picky the background seems to have compression artifacts or something which would bug me if it was my image. Just wondering how much compression you had to use to crunch this down to 2MB.
I can see your registration problems but they don't detract from the core detail which grabs the eye straight away.
Beautiful Peter, It is a keeper even with the registration problems.

[Peter Ward]

Sentiment noted...and thanks...but to post on the web, you gotta break some pixels (no-one would thank me for a 10 meg download) :)



I can live with that :D



:lol:

[Lester]

Definately one to hang on the wall. Thanks for the view Peter.

[TrevorW]

FOV is to crowded IMO and not sure about the star colouring but nice one anyhow

Cheers

[Octane]

Resolved to the core -- stunning!

H

[Peter Ward]

Thanks H.



Ever see the film Amadeus? (the composer was accused of "too many notes" ) ....I could photoshop some stars away....or tell some stars to "move along'"....but then again.... :)



Glad you like the vista.

[FlashDrive]

Very Nice Peter ..... one of my favourite targets .... although I don't see it quite like that in my scope..... that's a great pic.

Flash :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Col :)

[Jeffkop]

Yep ... I agree ... WOW !!!!!!
Great images of this are always WOW ... theres just so much to look at when its resolved as well as that ... Processed beautifully.

[marco]

:eyepop: Incredibly resolution Peter! In my opinion there is a slight violet halo on several stars I would try to correct, even if it doesn't effect much the overall stunning effect!

Clear Skies
Marco

[Peter Ward]

No worries.. just get bigger scope (the 'missus will never notice :) )

[richardo]

Hi Peter, still a great image even with old data!
As mentioned, core is resolved beautifully.. either done with short subs or two sets of image times.
Nice colours.

One critique, fix the left to right gradient.... then, it will be spotless and one of the best of this object I've seen!

Rich

[Peter Ward]

Thanks for the feedback. OK, I ran a gradient filter over it. (same URL)
Still looks the same on my monitor... :)



Played with the red channel as well....but I have a thing against painting
individual stars ;)



We aim to please :)

[richardo]

Yes that looks the ticket Peter! The magenta to the right has gone and both L/R sides look good.
Very nice indeed.. has a great depth!
All the best
Rich