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Originally Posted by Rod66
This is from a 6inch?? 
I have got to get me some of this photography gear..
I am in awe.. |
Wish I could take all the credit Rod but fact is a good 6" APO with medium FL punches above its weight and constantly surprises all I gotta do is drive it
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Originally Posted by DavidU
What can I say?
stunning work Mike
Whats next ,a TEC 180?  |
Thanks Dave, I couldn't afford a TEC 180
besides not enough of a jump I don't think anyway
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Originally Posted by beren
Top work Mike |
Cheers Beren
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Wow! That's a lot of galaxies in the field. How do you process them? Independently and mask to sharpen? Top pic. |
Hmm?The gbackground galaxies were just there. My basic processing for the lum is: align and sum subs, apply DDP and sharpening, apply log stretch and noise contro if necessary. For the RGB it's: sum subs, apply DDP, saturate to taste, blur RGB, perform LRGB combine in Astroart4 then tweek colour sharpening more noise work etc in PS and that ma friend is just about it, me a simple cook and the galaxies spring out at ya
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Brilliant bit of work....as usual. Great shot, Mike |
Cheers Carl, not sure about brilliant but I was pleased to finallly get a night of good seeing
The details revealed in there well and truly hold there own against a 12.5" F9 RCOS (no AO) image by Steve Crouch actually
(Steves image is excellent though). My dark sky site outside Newcastle is reasonably dark but the seeing is often ordinary or bad...I think the Yerkes 40" suffered the same problem due to its location though
