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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Coupla questions for you. This is with an STL11 so I imagine you have cropped these a fair bit to get that image scale right?
Also do you find you get round stars to the corner of your 1.6X extender or do you crop out any coma? I take it you are not using a flattener with the extender or are you?
You got some fabulous tracking there.
Greg.
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The 1.6 extender does not yield a flat field, even when using the 67 flattener. However the radial elongation that is produced can be processed out with some care & patience. When I've finished this image I will show the full frame.
BTW, there is no change to the image scale - it remains 1.05 arcsec/pixel. All I did was move them within the original frame and crop.
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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Geez, some seriously talented processing skills right there Marcus, a stunning effort indeed.
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Thanks a lot Fred!
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Top shot Marcus. The details is simply astonishing and the processing outstanding.  although I'll be the party pooper re:compositing and scaling. There is a fine line between taking shots and "painting" even for presentation purpose with a relatively black background.
I'm not a purist by any mean and there is latitude with artistic licence when processing with details and colors but not scale or re-positioning IMHO . Sorry.  |
No apologies necessary mate, but sounds like you
are a purist!!
. Painting? Scaling? Nah, I just moved them so you could appreciate the detail without browsing too much real estate.
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Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr
Ahhh, Marcus-san!! Great images of the Trio in Leo (or is that Lio? - sorry, private joke everyone). The long combined exposure time has enabled you to show the very faint outer regions of the galaxies - really great stuff!!
I am with Marc (ze Frogginator) on the subject of compositing though - would prefer to see even a faint grey line dividing the images ... and I am pure (no need to add a noun to the end of that either Marcus!).
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Thanks David.
Nah, a faint grey line would spoil the effect and simply be a distraction.
Oooo ... I think I like being controversial!
