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Originally Posted by RickS
More data is always better than noise reduction  |
Just wish it was easier!
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Nice little fellow at 2pm and an edge-on at 10pm.
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Interesting. PixInsight picks out a few more (attachment). Always love these background galaxies. Some of them at stonking distances!
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Originally Posted by astronobob
That has some nice sharp details in galaxy for a OSC camera Paul, Your F/Lngth would be a big help to this ! RC8 hey, they have a very good rep, yeah.
Grouse capturing  |
Thanks - had to look up what "grouse" meant! (Pom having spent my Aussie time in Adelaide only
). I'm quite happy with the RC8. Would like to upgrade to mono camera soon though.
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Originally Posted by Shiraz
looking good - especially for an OSC.
another process that may help tame the chroma noise in the background is to form an unsmoothed range mask and use it to protect the main parts of the galaxy and the stars, while you wind back the colour saturation in the background.
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Thanks for that, Ray. I had a more restrained go at reprocessing. Put it up on AstroBin
http://www.astrobin.com/226597/D/
and attached a small version. Comments appreciated.