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Originally Posted by LewisM
It is a splendiferous image of an oft-too imaged region. Really impressive indeed.
You apologised it was the Tarantula - thank goodness it was not M42 or we would have to whacky-thump you into submission.
(though, I am sure the RCOS would deliver a supreme result on that FAR TOO OFTEN imaged chunk of gas in Orion) |
Pleased you liked it Lewis. I do have plans to image M42 (for the first time ever with my own equipment would you believe) this season, time permitting. There are some other targets already loaded in ACP Scheduler that hit the meridian around the same time so it may have to wait another year (system is configured automatically to favour targets near the meridian before dispatching a plan, but I could override this). I would imagine to do it right it is going to take some work. I've been reading up one CCDStack's replace missing values to perfectly blend saturated areas with non saturated data. PI has similar functionality I believe. This will helpful in managing the dynamic range though at a slow F/9 I shouldn't need to worry too much.
Cheers Ian. Sure is an impressive area. I can see why it ranks high amongst imagers and visual observers alike. The histogram confirms the balance but its easily perceived with this image. Thanks for checking it out.