[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Ray,
500 subframes! -
that's 1/22 of the noise & it looks as sharp as CHART32.

cheers
Allan

thanks Allan - I have been using the ESO image as a guide, although my system cannot produce anything like the big scopes.

Originally Posted by topheart

Wow!!

Tim

thank you Tim

Originally Posted by Placidus

Incredibly sharp. This is another world.

Thanks M&T. it all comes down to seeing in the end - nice to have a bit of good stuff.

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Crikey Ray can you send some of that seeing this way please?

The seeing surprised me, but this site does best at the change of the seasons, when the nearby ocean is at about the same temp as the night air. During winter it is like imaging alongside a power station, with the sea about 10C hotter than the night air.

Originally Posted by astroron

Your finished product may have the galaxy in it discovered by Mike Sidonio
(strongman Mike)
Looks fantastic.
Cheers

hi Ron. Unfortunately, I don't have Mike's galaxy in the field - pity really

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Your excitement about the results to date is totally understandable

Very impressive. I'm really looking forward to seeing the entire field at that level of depth and resolution.

thanks Peter - we shall see.

Originally Posted by plantnerd

What software are you using for Drizzle?
I have a 32 CPU Core workstation with 64GB Ram that might process your images pretty quick. Oh and the hard disk is PCI E SSD that reads at 1400mb per second to keep the CPUs fed with data.

I can process 2500 16MP images into a 5 Gigapixel mosaic in 56 Mins!

blimey that's fast Luis. I only have a quad I7 with 16G RAM, so it churns along relatively slowly. I plan to use both Nebulosity and PI for the deconvolution and choose the best result. Nebulosity in particular is slow with a large stack, but it can sometimes do better than PI in recovering resolution.