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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Sure Daniels M104 has a much brighter (but very natural looking) central halo region that hides the core (inner ring is faintly visible though) but I can't really match up any outer disc or front edge details from Richards image to that visible in Daniels, this leads me to think that the detail in Richards is in fact somewhat processing induced?
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Might be a noob when it comes to astro photo but I know a few things about processing. Got to agree with mike on this one too. I used registax on planets and moon AVI frames in the past and this program can really screw things up and make you see things that are not there (or that you want to see) if you tweak the settings too much in the 5 channels.
I inverted some details on your pic to illustrate. The border line between the glow and the dark shows a lot of noise and I think that's what you might have picked up in the center of the picture that makes you think it looks like extra details. The same noise happens around the bright star.
The result looks real good mind you but I'm not sure it is actually there?
