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Gday Guys
Thx for the comments but Mr Marples rang me on the drive home tonite and said something doesnt look right with the stars in the Witch and surprise - one of the few times - he's right. Luv ya Pete
I've converted the mild Lucy Richardson filtered image to the jpg not the MLDB image. There are about 3 other steps after this haloed image. Sucks being a blind astrophotographer - I usually use the magnifier when processing but did this conversion this morning asfter 3 nights with next to no sleep. Just got home and im buggered but I'll post the correct image soon - haloed stars annoy the heck out of me.
dynobolt dave : It is modded by Eric so I end up with a red witch from raw data but thats pretty easy fixed. It would be interesting to see how an unmodded 350D does on an all blue object like this (or M45) _ I dont know but i dont think there is a lot difference at the blue end (any ideas Alex or others) Imaged at 800 with in camera NR on. A few smoke and mirrors in processing but mostly just a log stretch in Maxim DL5 and a layer masked colour dodge at about 40% opacity as per Jase's instructions from this forum. Then just a multi layer deconvolution blend but I havent pushed the decon on this object. Im not an expert but if you want any info let me know - I have just started experimenting with this deeper imaging technique and I am learning too.
Makes for a long night taking an image with nr on at 20 minute subs. The biggest pain is reframing after the meridian flip. I'm also building a mosaic of the LMC (Bert inspired me) so I go to that when the orion object is near the meridian for an hour or so then pick up on the subs after its passed the meridian.
Thx for the interest & comments guys. Might catch you at Leyburn in the New Year David
Mark
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