You're too kind gents!
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Still a good luminance Marcus. I'd keep plugging away if it were me. You are bound to pick up more good seeing at some point soon. It should be on my re-image list too. I take it you do a mask to reveal your star streams and reduce back ground noise?
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Thanks Paul. Yes, worth plugging away but will have to wait till next month now I think. After that it may be next year.
I use masks liberally and there are many ways to create them but the streams were quite pronounced in the raw stack so I didn't have to work too hard at all to show them clearly.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Ha ha well, despite the unChilean seeing...your mastery of decon has served you quite well Marcus Jucarkis, looks pretty good  and as for the seeing....take what we get huh? Otherwise our rigs would just sit there....effective cost per use can be pretty expensive in this hobby 
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Thanks Mike! Hehe, "un-Chilean", that's a generous way to describe the conditions. Underwater would be more apt I think!
So yes, I certainly did apply liberal decon here ... and I'm glad it isn't too obvious. Cost per image??!! AAAAaaaaargh!! I feel sick to my stomach now!
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Originally Posted by Atmos
There is still a lot of detail on the galaxy, there is only so much that can be done with less than optimal seeing however.
On my iPhone it looks like there is some star elongation running from 2 o'clock to 8 o'clock. Not noticeable on the brighter stars, could this be increasing the FWHM? It is only very slight.
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Cheers Colin. No significant elongation I can see but there may be some very minor misshapenness after processing given the seeing conditions. Just don't zoom in too much and make sure your astigmatism isn't corrupting the view (as it sometimes does with my eyeglasses if I cock my head when looking at images)!
