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Originally Posted by h0ughy
all hail the king, he must be king there is no.......on him..... its a great image your highness
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Oh Jester of the court, you make light of my work, off with your head...and on with your dome
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Originally Posted by Hagar
Not the new Centaurus A.
Looks pretty darn good to me Mike. Although I quite liked the last version but I might not look as hard as you do.
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Ah yes...Centaurus A....I miss her
...one to do again with the new camera perhaps?
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Originally Posted by Tom Davis
Looks good Mike!  Now be even more of a perfectionist and remove the coverslip halos around the brighter stars.
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Yeh that;s the remaining 1% dissatisfaction
. Funny you should mention that though, I did consider doing it but it was just too hard to get right and look natural (well I couldn't work out a way of doing it well anyway), in the end I am not too adverse to optically induced effects in an image if they are not too objectionable and besides, the pending FLI16803 will have
no cover slip and a CCD mask light shield
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Originally Posted by DavidU
Damn ! That's a stunner.
I'm always up for a Sidonio Mike.
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On ya Dave
what would I do without the repro
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Could tell the difference, both are great.
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Glad you noticed the change Mr Fastidious No2, most probably wouldn't
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Originally Posted by Garyh
Like this color balance better than the orig one Mike!
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Thanks Gary glad you noticed the new interior decoration
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Originally Posted by telemarker
Stunning
If they made a movie about you it'd be called "Repro Man" 
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On the subject of Repro man, I competed against a big Kiwi back in 1998,99 & 2000, Levi Vaonga, Levi was 6'3" and 173kg, super strong and powerfull too (lovely gentle man off the field). He had a nose ring and a mohawk the first time I met him
...thing is you betch ya, he was a reprosession man
but get this, he drove a Black high rise Toyota HiLux with a row of driving lights across the top and mag wheels, now I challenge anyone who's door he knocked on and asked them for their car not to give it to him
He was hard to beat and just taking the odd event from him over the course of a competition was enough at times, which I did a few times, but overall he was a monster.
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Originally Posted by Jeffkop
Just as pleasing to the eye as its predecessor Mike ... cant wait for the next version ... ya cant stop at 99% ... my house is on it !!!! |
Well the 1% left is the small star halos around teh stars caused by the chip cover slip...so who knows
...I wasn't 100% happy with the last version as it showed some colour noise in the outer fainter nebulosity in the darker areas, particularly up around the outer Running Man and I hadn't managed to reveal the details in the very faint outer sections of the loop at the bottom of the frame very well, I also tweaked the colour balance slightly to get rid of teh slight green cast in a couple of areas and reduce the blue in the outer areas of the main nebula loop as I think this should be a little more grey. I was sure I could also squeak a tad more detail out overall too 
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