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Originally Posted by PRejto
I think that is quite good! Have you considered using an Astronomik CLS filter as a luminance filter? It does a pretty amazing job from my former light polluted sight in Sydney. You really could add colour to this! I managed (with a lot of processing and gradient removal) and so does Peter Ward....I think double to triple the usual amount of colour data helps in the battle.
Peter
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Thank you for the hints with CLS and colour data Peter. Unfortunately I have rather severely obstructed views on the sky so adding colour will need to wait for another season. Grus Quartet is high up in the sky though, so I have adjusted length of exposure and started collecting new data - so far it looks quite promising!
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
That is actually not a bad image. I was working on this very object a few months back with the RC until I had to abandon the project. It is a very faint object with lots of interesting dust lanes. I'll have another go at it next year but your suburban image compares pretty well.
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Thank you Paul. This image started out as a star field for removing the reminder of tilt from my imaging train, but data looked not too bad so I decided to stick with it for a while.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Well I am surprised. I would not think that you would get anything decent from a light polluted area of such a faint galaxy. You've done exceptionally well here.
Greg.
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Thank you Greg for your very kind feedback. I really need to move further out from the city...
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Originally Posted by atalas
Great work from your location Suavi  It's a very tough low surface bright galaxy and needs another 8 hrs to smooth out the low signal area but, I'm sure you know that anyway.
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Thank you Louie. I already started another image and shortening Lum subs made a big difference in terms of controlling background noise. With 3 minutes I am easily sky limited and noise in each sub is much lower than with 5-minute subs.