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Old 15-06-2015, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese View Post
That is exactly how I saw it Phil regarding the colour. I did 100 minutes integration for each colour for my recent Trifid image with the FSQ. It shows nice star colours below the Trifid and hence my thoughts about field colour.

I'll miss catching up with you this year Phil and Peter. I picked up a gong in DSO section but don't think we will be attending. Yes the speakers for this years CWAS would be great to see.

Sorry for the hi-jacking Peter.
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Originally Posted by philiphart View Post
hmm.. sorry i may have jumped the gun a bit. looking at another image of this region it does appear that the milky way background between these two is less colourful and that the yellow hued patch you have is into an area of stronger colour. it still looks a tad strange to my eyes but may be 'correct' - i'm sure you have fairly robust processing in place!

Phil
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hi Peter

It's a lovely sharp image (like all your recent posts!) and the nebulae themselves are punchy and uber saturated. But there seems to be something going on with the colour of the milky way star background. It seems like the background is almost completely desaturated, save for some magenta (Ha?) overlay in some areas and a little patch of yellow hued stars at far bottom right. That yellow hue is what I would expect across most of the frame?

I didn't enter deep sky but can't promise you won't want to punch me on the night. Little bird says it could be some new entrants with modest gear doing themselves proud rather than 20" monsters stealing the show. Look forward to seeing many folks from IIS there again. Amazing line-up of presenters this year.. not to be missed!

cheers
Phil
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I like the dark, brooding look, Peter.
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Magnificent view Peter, soo many pinpoint sharp stars.

Josh
Thanks again for the input guys. No-hijack apologies required.

In retrospect, my struggle with severe gradients from the light glow from a city of of close to 5 million residents has likely resulted in the lack of saturation of the field stars.....something DM is *always* very picky about

I sincerely hope to be able to catch up with one and all at CWAS/Parkes (pending the TBA outcome of my work roster for July)

My prognostication for CWAS 2015 ? I suspect I'll be taking a back seat but...
I do recall Phil's delightful comet animation...
Paul has been prolific in DSO
plus there has been an Arctic total solar eclipse
and some amazing CME solar activity (Southern Aurora?)

It will be an interesting night!
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