Well took a few days but I finally got around to (round 1) of my processing of the data I collected at Wiruna last weekend.
First image is a nice widish field around the beautifull spiral NGC 6744 in Pavo.
I wanted to go much deeper over the two days but I lost a number of subs (and precious time investigating
) due to mechanically routed guide issues (later rectified), and friggin satellites! - they were doing it on purpose I am sure
Plus the seeing was atrocious most of the time and poor the rest pluuuuus it was very windy with strong scary gusts, so the faint stuff has basically been smeared...
Never the less... I was very happy to reveal that lovely Galactic Cirrus dust again and while not as extensive, due to much less exposure time and the above conditions, like in my deep Cen A image it is all over the field, like smoke
Perhaps a bit blue for some of you (I seem to lean toward a blue feel) and as I do, I went easy on the noise reduction again
.
anyway here it is:
Full Frame 70% size (5meg)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...69309/original
Crop of main galaxy (2.3meg)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...69154/original
Enahanced Luminance to show extent of Galactic Cirrus dust (1meg):
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...69838/original
aaaand for those who wish to, here is the whole shabbang 13.5meg full frame full res image, to swim around in counting all the background galaxies
:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...70854/original
Cheers
Mike