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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
.... As you would expect from me  , I think the smoothing is a bit too obvious  also, to me, the stars look worked on and a little unnatural, I would like to see a version with the original stars. Processing the stars artificially to be smaller is always obvious to me, particularly if one uses the minimum filter in the sequence somewhere... otherwise, these minor mostly personal preferences aside...a really nice looking image 
Mike |
Yes I see your point with regard to the stars. I will go back over previous versions and take a look. The smoothing is minimal though. On my new screen (3 weeks from new) there is still plenty of noise and I had hoped you would see that and I have come to agree with you that noise should be a little present to add definition.
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Originally Posted by Rigel003
A really dramatic image Paul with great colours and composition. I always think that star reduction gives a very distinctive look with somewhat soft stars. The nebulosity is great.How did you manage to find the clear nights for this data? It's been cloud city around here.
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This data was taken the night you killed your filter wheel Graeme. I had just not got around to processing until now.
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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon
Hi Paul,
Nice image, but sorry, not a big fan of it.
Stars are way to big and bold while competing with the nebulosity buried in them. Also not keen on the milky look of the image as a whole and it looks a bit too smooth in some spots.
It may be better to choose what you are trying to do with this image, the stars or the nebulosity.
Cheers,
Gray. |
Unfortunately the big stars are what I have been left with from the imaging train. I get a faint reflection back from the reducer on the TSA and that means I get these sort of stars. Even isolating these stars which I have for each part of the processing means the stars look big. on a true HD monitor the stars do not look that big. I am running a new 1080 monitor and the image at 1900 pixels just fits on a 17" screen. That said I take your point and would like smaller brighter stars but am left with what I have.
The milkiness in the image is naturally there. I did one stretch and this appeared. Imaging from dark skies tends to produce these sort of results. I am certain this is a faint dust component present in the region.
All this said I will go over the data again and ascertain how I get some of the elements that are pleasing and reduce the distracting ones. Thanks for the feeback.