... NGC 6334. This is a work in progress.
I actually got very good seeing last night (better than 2.1 arcsec FWHM average across all subs)! Alas, I fiddle-farted around for over 2 hours early in the night getting the composition right and recovering from a couple of software crashes. Then I only got 2.5 hours of Lum before thick fog came in (very annoying because that's rare around here). Anyway, it's looking very good and I was surprised by it's beautifully intricate structure and tonality because not many renditions, except for the
ESO 2.2m version - at full res, show it well. The filaments within the jelly fish at top right look amazing.
BUT,
this is only 45% full scale to hide noise from the low integration time and artefacts from my quick, preliminary processing. I can tell you though, full res is looking pretty spectacular ... but I'll hold off posting that though until I get more Lum and add RGB and probably NB.
45% full scale - screen sized:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/165694744/original
Fingers crossed for some more good seeing nights this lunar cycle!!!
