Latest news on Centaurus A:
I finally learnt how to do flattening backgrounds properly using Fitswork 4.
see here:
http://intervalometer.appspot.com/Fitswork.jsp
I never knew about the
"Flatten Radius to 50 and "Mark Bright Areas" in such way that your objects become yellow as shown below."
& the fact that images with borders had to be cut with the scissors first - other wise it won't work.
This meant that I didn't have to buy GradientXterminator to get my backgrounds equalized.
What a difference it makes when you can get rid of gradients in the image!
I reprocessed both versions of the image including blurring
of noisy areas & iterative sharpening of selected areas
transferred in with a blurred layer mask just like
Ken Crawford shows in his videos.
fullframe:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2471943...ream/lightbox/
Close up with the 2 x drizzle frame which was layered into the full frame just like a mosaic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2471943...ream/lightbox/
I am very pleased with the results now.
I feel like reprocessing many other images as I
have a handle on many new processing techniques.