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Originally Posted by Octane
Richey's Creation,
That is a magnificent B33.
Your stars are to die for.
Love your work.
H
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H, a big new years cheers to you.
Thanks for the very kind words.
My 10"
Richie
Creation is a great scope when it is attentively looked after.
I am also very happy with what the Paracorr has done for my stars.
I think the ol' girl has hit her mark now.
Hey, what's happening with your new set up ??
Are you still waiting for parts..
Am looking forward for when you get it happening.. hopefully very soon.
All the best for the new year H
Always appreciate your comments!
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Hi Rich,
Mostly fixed.
Do I win a prize?
I could get it more perfect with more time but it is resolving with what I have done already:
1. duplicate layer set to difference
2. opacity slider to suit.
3. layers/hide all/paint brush set to about 25% and foreground set to white
4. run in the areas of the reflection only.
5. flatten image
6. Healing brush set to luminosity and smallish size brush. Do small areas at a time and not necessarily always straight lines, avoid the stars.
7. Alternate as needed with dodge tool (to brighten darker lines of the reflection) and burn tool (to darken lighter areas of the reflection).
Take your time, zoom in and set the brush diameter smallish and don't go at it too hard or it will stand out.
8. Curves to rebrighten the image a bit as it got darker in steps 1-4 above.
Mirrored scopes seem to suffer from reflections more than refractors.
My Planewave CDK17 is quite prone to this hence the above.
is your secondary mirror housing flocked? I am thinking of doing that to the CDK. Or perhaps a bigger secondary baffle? The CDk has 4 secondary baffles and still gets reflection/spikes although not like that where you see the spider and secondary mirror more of a light flare. Hence the healing brush set to luminosity as it is more of a problem in differences in brightness than anything else.
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/131601506
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Ahh Greg, you da man!!
Mmmmm, no prizes, sorry... how bout a big man hug
Nah, thanks a heap for doing a run down for me.
The image looks pretty well cleaned up beautifully!
And with the colour image as well....
All around my secondary is flocked so I expect it was because Alnitak was so close, just sitting just outside the fov.... maybe this was inducing extra effects triggered by the abg on the detector/ sensor... i've seen this before when having a fairly bright star just off the chip when in focus mode. The whole chip seems to compensate for the light increase. Noticed this on all my previous ccd's as well.
I recall when I had a VC200L the same thing would happen with bright stars off the chip. I'd get some interesting flares.
I think it is a lesson re enforced in my brain...
Any ways, I really appreciate your time and effort here.
At the mo am just getting some M78 lum down so in the mean while I will have a go at using your steps and see if I can perfect things.
Cheers Gregg... all the best for 2011.
All the best guys
Rich