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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Nice one Stuart!  Some nice detail there. Looks like maybe some black clipping going on though?
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The light pollution removal tool I use (and have to) when I shoot from the 'burbs has a tendency to really knock off the noise in the background, hence the background looks clipped. I'll back it off when I do the second iteration of processing.
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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon
Good colour and detail, but does look clipped in the dark zone. Good stars.  |
Again see above, the joys of shooting stuff like this from Melbourne!
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Nice Stuart maybe a tad clipped, I'd expect more in the spirals for the data collected though
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So did I Trevor, but I pushed the data as much as I could without making stuff up. This is probably all I can do from home, I'd need to go to a dark site to get any more of the outer arms. The signal is probably there, it just can't fight through the LP.
Of course there's always the Mac v PC problem I have, as I process on a (calibrated) Apple 30" monitor and a MacPro, sometimes the gamma differences in the PC monitors and video cards make my pics look a bit dark. I don't know why this is, but they look OK on my work PC (also calibrated) and the 27" iMac (running Windows) that I'm using to post this.
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
Beautiful!
I'd love to be able to produce images like this.
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Thanks Nettie, and all the other posters as well. If I can do this, anyone can. I'm thinkiing of posting a progressive M83, I reckon I've had at least three goes at it with varying gear. It'd be interesting to see the progression.
Cheers
Stuart