mmm nice mike not too shabby ...what where your sub lenghts??
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Well it took a while but I finally got out for a couple of nights of fiddling and testing the new camera-filterwheel system....      ........ .... 
The first target for the new system was veeeery carefully chosen  ... for two reasons  1) I have always wanted to image (part of) this distant group of thousands of galaxies and it was on my list of potential targets. 2)....err?..the first night had a big hole right there in the sky aaaaand I was impatient  
For some unknown reason I had an issue with my Lum shots with a touch of egging happening for some reason but it is only noticable at full res, funny, the RGB subs were all pretty well perfect... The egging in the final LRGB was really only minor so I left it as is, de-egging causes more issues than it solves usually anyway....so ignore any eggs if ya notice them.. baulk begurk! 
Warning, the files from this 16mega pixel beast are big and given the fov is some 1.65deg X 1.65deg the tiny size of these 150 million ly distant galaxies (largest is still under 4') means to appreciate them one must look at virtually 100% size images really.
So here are a few 100% crops (around 1Meg each) and a 50% size full frame (4.5meg) for a bit of surfing oportunity .
Full Frame 50% size (4.5meg)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...34922/original
100% crops:
Central cluster area (1.6meg)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...13257/original
Cool galaxy grouping 1 (900k):
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...13263/original
Cool galaxy grouping 2 (500k)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...13260/original
And if ya just wanna see it all in one go have a surf around the enormous full 100% size full frame 16meg image here:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...35787/original
Mike |