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Old 08-08-2016, 08:29 PM
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LMC, Tarantula & SMC from Astrofest 2016

Here's my first pic taken Thursday and Friday night which were the best of the lot seeing wise. This is 51x5min, so around four and a half hours.

FSQ106N at prime with a QHY8 OSC and OAG + Lodestar on a G11.

I used PixInsight Bayer Drizzle for this one as my image scale is approx 3 seconds of arc per pixel. I had enough subs and drift to use it.

This is a crop of the original which is about six times bigger.

The 1:1 looks good but it's over 37MB so I did a few versions below if you're feeling lucky and want to pixel peep.

[70% full frame - 4256x2822 - 18.7MB]

[50% full frame - 3040x2016 - 10.1MB] Native format after drizzle 50% reduction.

[HD Crop - 1920x1737 - 5.17MB] So HD version of crop thumbnail posted.

[Small full frame - 1280x849 - 1MB]

Did the colour balance and stretching in Goodlook 64bit. Saturation in PS.
Probably too green for some but at the star 1:1 level, blue and yellow sand makes for the green tinge.

Enjoy the view.

PS: Added the SMC field shot the same nights. Same treatment in PI although a lot less data. 30x5min.

[70% full frame - 4256x2820 - 19.9MB]

[50% full frame - 3040x2015 - 10.6MB] Native format after drizzle 50% reduction.

[HD Crop - 1920x1909 - 6.4MB] HD crop.

[Small full frame - 1280x848 - 1MB]
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Last edited by multiweb; 09-08-2016 at 11:59 PM.
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