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Originally Posted by Paramount
Hi Jase
To be honest I have to look really close to see any evidence of star elongation and unless it is so obvious that it jumps out and flicks my ears then I don't look for it as it would mean I am not looking at the most important part, ie the image itself and I think sometimes we are all guilty of looking at images to find out the faults instead of looking at the aesthetic points (as far as I am concerned there is no such thing as a faultless image). This is a cracker with loads of detail in the whispy parts of the nebula,lovely colour balance as well. As you said unguided for over 4m focal length and a scope that is actually above the recommended maximum load capacity for the Paramount ME (when you add on the weight of guider, cameras, accessories, etc. It really speaks wonders about the capabilities of the Paramount (that's why I've got one)
Best wishes
Gordon  |
Cheers Gordon. I guess I'm more concious of the image problems considering I spent a few days working the data over.
Perhaps its time to do your mount justice and ditch that wide field TMB115 and give the C14 a run. Lets see what you can do! Narrowband, narrowfields are always a special treat to image. I think the only time I'd mount a wide field scope on a PME would be if I was accessing it a few hundred kilometres away in a autonomous robotic fashion. I hope you'll take up the challenge.
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Originally Posted by Bassnut
An excellent image Jase, you cleaned up elongation nicely, masterfull processing, and compostion is pleaseing. Interesting you are finally useing CCD stack, you might be interested in the one click align plugin included in CCD inspector, very powerfull, give it a try. I quite like the slight blue star halo, gives them a vibrant touch. Neb detail is very good too, withstands much zooming :-).
CCD stack deconvolute is powerfull tool in CCD stack, it works well with megadata, as you have found.
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Thanks Fred. Yes, I've gone the full loop. I used CCDStack many moons ago (as previously mentioned version 1.14). I found the software limiting. Visiting AIC2008 changed that. Saw some really cool features in 1.4 that I thoroughly enjoyed. I'll blame Adam Block as he told me I should use it.
In all seriousness however, I'm rather out of my depth with this software. I know MaximDL almost like the back of my hand, but CCDStack presents a different method/flow of processing. It also lead me to getting a PC upgrade so I could blast through mega stacks of subs. Yes, I also purchased the CCDIS/P for image alignment. I'm using the 64-bit version, not that I think its that memory intensive. The plug-in is sweet, but still does not handle huge image scale differences. I'm working on an image at the moment where I wanted to also align some RGB data from my FSQ with the longer focal length of the RC - *kapow* wouldn't accept it. Needed to manually align the images. This is where Registar really comes into its own. Shame I can't run it anymore - doesn't support Vista64. eeeek!
Will push the developers an email I think considering 64-bit computing will inevitiably become mainstream. PS CS4 is a real treat in 64-bit mode very smooth and feature rich. Still trying to work out all the cool new "toys" such as tricky adjustment layers etc. Haven't played around too much with CCDStacks deconvolution. I did in this image, but was rather tame with it. Didn't push it hard (as I had No.F.Idea what I was doing
) I'm having some real problems in balancing the individual RGB masters. Driving me nuts. I balance the background ok, but stars get a deep magenta tone to them. Its happened to two images I've been "attempting" to process now. I've got to be doing something wrong or the data is wacked and I need to acquire more. You're a CCDStack guru, so may need to zap your brains offline if I don't get any joy. Thanks again for your support.
