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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Extensive image Mike. Covers a great more of the field than I have seen before. Colour is ok I guess but maybe a bit red for my taste, however that is your choice. I would have thought given the proximity of golden stars in that field part of the image would have been quite golden, particularly at the top of the image.
I really like the amount of sharp detail in the Omega, however on the outsides I am assuming you used a fair bit of smoothing to control the noise levels. The stars in the surrounding field look a little too blurred to me.
Overall I think it is a lovely image, thanks for posting.
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Thanks for the feedback Paul
The colour thing is very scientific with me, often referd to as the "
as I feel it coming along..that's about right" approach
. Actually no, I wouldn't consder that I used a lot of noise reduction at all, just a very mild low pass in Astroart after the stretch, most of the blurring is simply the seeing, it is that bad, the image scale is 1.57"/pix but the seeing is probably 4" (hence why it looks good at 50%) - nottin I can do about that but try my best, The sharpening applied to the main items of interest has probably set a slight sharpness differential across the frame. The 12" F3.8 with the 16803 sucks in the photons so simply doesn't need super long exposures for good smooth results
..I really notice the difference when comparing to my former 6" F8 APO and the KI11002 chip images of teh same things..like chaulk and cheese.
Mike
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Originally Posted by RickS
Very nice, Mike. You certainly have a formula that works!
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Cheers Ricky
Mike