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Originally Posted by kosborn
Great image Mike. There's lot's of good things about this hobby of ours, both scientific (which is what attracts me) and artistic. This image is a great example of the artistic while preserving and show casing the science in the hobby.
Kevin
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Cheers Kevin, it's always cool to check your
pretty picture data, for cool things within and appreciate the object and all the interesting things captured in a FOV. It can be easy to find ourselves focused on trivial processing perfection and completely forget what it is that we are actually doing
...ie. imaging cool stuff
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Originally Posted by alpal
Great image Mike,
I didn't realise that target was so large in a frame.
Thanks for posting that.
cheers
Allan
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Yeah it's huuuuge!
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Very interesting image Mike! Nicely done!
The faint foreground stars seem a little thin on the ground though. I'd have thought with 10 hours of Lum they'd be more obvios??  |
Thanks Marcus
Interesting observation mate...hey? perhaps, dunno?...but to be honest, not a biggy for me in the scheme of things
....plenty of other cool stuff in the image
I could probably enhance the fainty wainty stars back in a tad but de-emphasising the stars does help showcase the galaxy detail
...think star removal and Topaz AI
Your comment got me curious though
...
HERE is a full res 1:1 comparison with
2.2m ESO data...if you look very closely, with a nice bright monitor, the missing stars are only the very tiniest faintest ones here and there but most can be faintly seen in both shots...apart form the missing fainty waity stars, I recon the overall galaxy detail, otherwise holds up very nicely to the muuuuch bigger aperture in better seeing
, so meah, I'm happy enough
In the end, the reality is, limiting magnitude is essentially a function of aperture...and of course seeing (wobbly atmosphere scrubs out the faintest stars), so, unless you hammer mega data (ala Rolf Olsen
) a 0.3m aperture has a hard time matching a 2.2m, at least as far as reaching faint stars goes...but!...detail in extended features is a different story
Mike