[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

This is a target I looked at a few nights ago as a new target selection. I think your lum looks good. Not sure about the colour data though. You could try blurring the colour data and then adding the lum to the blurred colour. A gaussian blur of around 3.2 should work well for you.

Captured some new colour data on Sunday, had a few goes at it this week but I think I am at about as good as its going to get. I was happy with my Red so I captured some more Green and Blue. Stars are nice and round this time around BUT the seeing towards the south was terrible, imaging from Melbourne with a 50% moon. Still not sure why but the G/B had FWHM of 3.8" while 10 minutes later I was getting FWHM of 2.4" in Ha to the East. Still not sure whether it was local seeing towards the south or HORRIBLE tracking. Had to blur the R channel from 2.5" to 3.8".

Originally Posted by deeplook

Hi Colin,

seems to be some really nice Luminance data - I hope you can get good color data and make a beautiful colored image out of it!

Markus

Thanks Markus, waiting for the next new moon to head up to my dark site to recapture everything

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice work on the lum, Colin. It really is a very dim and tricky target.

I didn't think it was going to be overly difficult being Mag ~9.5 or something. Picked it because it was large

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

nice work Col, L is looking really good. I would love to nab this target one day - apparently this is what the milky way would appear like from a distance, it might have to wait for a dark site (not that I've ever moved my gear) for me.

Thanks Russell. I would definitely wait for a dark site trip, the difference I have noticed from taking it at Heathcote with the moon around and down in Melbourne was staggering.