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Originally Posted by Flugel88
I love it  way better than Don's version.
Planetary nebula's are my favorite by far!
Specially these little rarely imaged obscurities.
Thanks for sharing Mike |
Well, thanks for the sentiment
but while surprisingly very close, when our full res images are directly compared side by side in the same orientation (which I did) and all aspects are considered, the 20" image
is slightly superior overall.
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Originally Posted by Flugel88
Mike was also just wondering how you roughly went about blending in your HA and OIII data.  |
Well,
roughly, it is a HaOIIIOIII blend with RGB stars pasted in and RGB blended to help colour the Ha background and NGC 6337 itself
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Originally Posted by Rex
Another out of left field beauty Mike. Nicely processed and not at all what I was expecting. I have seen this object through the 12 inch dob a couple of times a few years ago with the LVW 5mm and it looks like a little smoke ring through the eyepiece. Thanks for showing the hidden side.
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Cheers Rex, it's always great to compare visual and imaged appearances, if the scope is big enough the difference can often only be the lack of colour in the visual view. I had the pleasure of using a 24" F3.5 dob at SPSP a couple of years ago for several hours and I was amazed at the details visible through the 24" on so many objects. I have a great memory for many objects and how they look in an image and I can tell you, with only a few exceptions, the 24 inch under truly dark skies was showing pretty much everything that appeared in most images I'd taken through 3", 5", 6" and 12" scopes over the years, just without the colour
Mike