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Originally Posted by richardo
Hey Mike,
long time no comment for me... but I've been hangin' in the back blocks checking out images. Been a pretty poor 6 months here with weather, but have some image projects on the way, but weather is still all over the place.
Holy guacamole  , Batman, aaahhh make that Strongman, this is some huge, high res real- estate with your killer setup. I had my mon fairly up there when I first viewed your large image, thought it appeared a wee bit grainy, then dropped it back to where it should be, and voila, mmmmm very nice indeed.
What impresses me with this image apart from the lovely detail in the nebulosity are the tiny stars that are so well defined... that Taka still turns my head. There's a little reflection neb just left and down from M43 that I've never seen...
Thanks for this, most enjoyable! 
Rich |
Howdy Richardo
Where you been at
Glad you liked the image. Yes I usually favour a very slight grain at times over processed smoothing, always looks better to me than the obviously smoothed/noise reduced look, which is very hard to avoid if you use noise reduction filters.
Do you mean that small yellow nebula? Yes that nebula was a nice surprise to me too.
Shame about your weather
..been crapola here over Chrissy/New Year then cleared up after I went back to work
..always the way. Paul Haese told me the other day that he had 9 clear nights ina row - bustardo
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Cheers mate
Mike
oh and I have an Astrophysics Starfire not a Takahashi