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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Hmmm, bit blunt there Jase. Not sure what your agenda is here. You rave about a certain imager's images and those look like noise central, have elongated stars everywhere and not well colour balanced, and you don't bang him with a sledge hammer.
Yes there looks to be a gradient and I recognised that. I am currently applying a gradient map and thanks for the tip; I think. 
I don't think Robert is trying to say I discovered anything at all. Nor am I even thinking along those lines. However, just for your information I will respond to your queries.
1. The flats are accurate.
2. Darks and biases are being subtracted accurately. Or would you like to check my work yourself?
3. Blue green filter data is fine.
4. No light leaks. Everything is screw fitted from the OTA to the camera.
5. The site is a dark site. 5 street lights in the whole town and the nearest is 600m away. If you look around the rest of my images you might find this is not the norm in my images.
I don't really care if this is important to you or not, but the way you have addressed this seems like you think less of me. Your words seem to imply I don't know what I am doing and that is disrespectful. Tell me what is wrong with the image but also tell me what you think is right. |
No agenda Paul. Feedback was constructive along with items to check. I'm pleased to hear you have confirmed these are all ok. If you took these questions as though I don't think you know what you are doing, you've got it all wrong and taken it way too personally. Apologies. Happy to discuss- skype cpjase. I'm actually hoping you are onto something with the light background appearance toward the top right given no amateur image has gone so deep of this area that I can recall. The image shows that you've put in a lot of time and energy producing this image, and the 43hrs of data alone talks dedication. The image has a lot going for it with solid colour balance and saturation to name a couple. The background is however very distracting in my opinion, whether accurate or not. Perhaps there are signs of galactic cirrus being masked by the uneven background. More than happy to have a go at working your mega data set over if you are offering. Try some inverse masks to stretch the background hard to see what's lurking there while masking the stars and foreground objects.
Looking forward to seeing the repro.