It was mainly an exercise to eliminate any noise in the very dim regions.
I already have seven hours of RGB data and will collect HA, OIII and SII.
My system can really only usefully collect from the East to two hours after the zenith. The light pollution in my western sky is far worse than my eastern.
Thanks again Laurie for your comments. I am fortunate I am retired so whenever the sky is clear I can image all night and not have to worry about then putting in a days work. This system was really purchased to keep me usefully occupied and sane?. It is a full time 'job' for me. After forty years working in scientific research, it is hard to break old habits. I can get a bit irritable when the weather is not kind. Just lately it has been clear at night more often than not, so the data quickly accumulates.
Thanks again Laurie for your comments. I am fortunate I am retired so whenever the sky is clear I can image all night and not have to worry about then putting in a days work. This system was really purchased to keep me usefully occupied and sane?. It is a full time 'job' for me. After forty years working in scientific research, it is hard to break old habits. I can get a bit irritable when the weather is not kind. Just lately it has been clear at night more often than not, so the data quickly accumulates.
Bert
I am semi-retired, Bert. And looking forward to full retirement. I am in the process of gathering the necessary gear to go back to astro-photography myself. It is difficult, as you say, to image at night and then work the next day-so I'm not really trying to do much at the moment
Laurie
The close up is showing plenty of good resolution and it is only that it is a bit blown out that it is not showing even more I recon..? This is just a processing thing too.
If people can't see the running chicken in the wide shot, then..?..they need chicken glasses (she is running to the left with out stretched flapping wings)
The close up is showing plenty of good resolution and it is only that it is a bit blown out that it is not showing even more I recon..? This is just a processing thing too.
If people can't see the running chicken in the wide shot, then..?..they need chicken glasses (she is running to the left with out stretched flapping wings)
Mike
thanks Mike here is a compressed 16bit tiff of the data. 20MB
Thanks to Bert for posting the original tiff file for us to experiment with. It gave me an opportunity to process the data more to my liking when it comes to grayscale. This image is 50% res, 8 bit to fit my picture server limitiations.
NII is interesting, but my own experiments with 3nm filters indicate that they are not the optimal choice for f/3 systems. Significant reduction in filter transmission. Still, there are gigs of signal in Bert's image that makes processing quite easy. 50% res like this does not readily show some star problems in the corners. I'll have to go back and shoot this with my FSQ and 5nm Ha filter
Thanks to Bert for posting the original tiff file for us to experiment with. It gave me an opportunity to process the data more to my liking when it comes to grayscale. This image is 50% res, 8 bit to fit my picture server limitiations.
NII is interesting, but my own experiments with 3nm filters indicate that they are not the optimal choice for f/3 systems. Significant reduction in filter transmission. Still, there are gigs of signal in Bert's image that makes processing quite easy. 50% res like this does not readily show some star problems in the corners. I'll have to go back and shoot this with my FSQ and 5nm Ha filter
(she is running to the left with out stretched flapping wings) 
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That first image looks a lot like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. LOL
