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Originally Posted by Dennis
Wow, what a pretty galaxy and in such a rich, stunning field. The pin-point detail in the arms and core is gorgeous. 
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Thanks Dennis! We had some spectacular seeing on a couple of the nights (sub-two second!) which definitely helped on the core detail.
The 32 hours isn't quite as impressive as it sounds... after the first night, I just have to uncover the scope, wait for cool down, start imaging, do the flip, and go to bed. Feels like cheating
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Originally Posted by Larryp
Lovely image, Dave!
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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Dave,
You certainly got an amazing amount of detail for a small scope.
It's hard to find a better picture unless with a large scope.
I probably would have taken some short exposures at 1x1 binning just for the bright stars
& copied & pasted them into the pic to reduce their sizes.
cheers
Allan
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Thanks Allan! The excellent seeing didn't hurt either
A few of the stars are clipped in the raw subs, but I did also take shorter subs for later HDR combining. I think I need to learn a few more processing skills first to manage them better.
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Originally Posted by RickS
That's a lovely image, Dave, and was definitely worth all the integration time. The little galaxy chain is particularly cool. Look forward to your post exam repro!
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Cheers Rick! Thanks for all your help & advice too... I think we could call some percentage of this your image too
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
The galaxy looks great and all those little background galaxies came up nicely.
Something has gone awry with stretching process and the stars - they look clipped.
When you end up doing the repro keep an eye on that early on to see what happened.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg. The 3D plot of the stars look good (mostly non-clipped except for the brightest ones), but I wasn't able to deconvolve them to reduce bloat and compress their dynamic range (but it worked quite well on the small stars in the galaxy core). I'll have to learn a few more processing tricks over the summer. Any suggestions welcome!