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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Mike,
what are the technical reasons why your image is better?
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Better?..it's not
better but rather has revealed the same or more of the faint galactic cirrus that's all. It wasn't that long ago that this stuff was considered out of range for amateur astroimagers. As Andy will surely testify however, the original raw plate fine details visible under the optical viewer he would have used must have been mind blowing, David just applied high contrast techniques to surface the very faint material....which we can do now too
...a very fast 12" astrograph, dark skies and a sensitive CCD camera helps too of course
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Originally Posted by andyc
Once upon a time I spent a couple of weeks marking satellite trails on UK Schmidt plates in Edinburgh over a light table. Superb fun for me, getting to freely explore those plates in detail, and not really the intended 'work' experience.  But I'd not have believed that amateurs could ever match the depth and quality of imagery. It looks like you have done just that. Truly awesome imaging there Mike! |
What a cool job and yes I was an avid astrophotographer from about 1982 so this deep high contrast Schmidt work by David always blew my mind..so to finally be in a position to emulate it is truly an honour
Thanks for the comments everyone else, the skies are clear and it looks like another good all nighter ahead
so I should have a complete full frame colour version soon
Mike