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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Thats certainly a huge field there Mike, with lots to look at. The close up is a bit noisy but the exposure time is not that long either.
I think with a bit more exposure time, youd see a lot more galaxies pop up clearly. A good start with the new cam, bodes well, must have been a beitch to get aligned etc.
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Yes as usual I pushed every bit out of the relatively small amount of data that I could and also as usual ran the guantlete of acceptable noise, I prefer a little noise to an artificially smoothed look...as you well know
. Processing for both wide field AND narrow field from the same data is deffinitely challenging, I should do it more seperately but I kinda like to know that everything is in there in both the full wide field AND the up close shots
The seeing was the Achilles heal here, small galaxies get blured and dimmed significntly, applying sharpening to such areas of an image only serves to ruin them further. When the seeing is good it is like chaulk and cheese, as Marcus discovered in his Leo tripplet image.
I have only had it out four nights so far but the camera has been an absolute joy to use and configure just like the PL11002 was
Mike