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Originally Posted by jase
Taking it to the extreme Mike! Enjoyed the view of integrated flux nebulosity. I must say your calibration flats must be spot on as the field is so well corrected resulting in an evenly illuminated background. Darker skies no doubt help. I like the processing on the original true colour image but showing the heavily stretched inverted version makes me wonder whether you should have got more out of the background on the original. Perhaps the use of inverse masks in photoshop would do it, but not sure without seeing the raw files. Would have made an epic picture as there is something super cool about seeing galaxies nestled amongst IFL. M81 and M82 are great examples of this. In any case, top work mate. More please.  |
Firstly, good to see you back
Cheers, I hear you Jase
... but in this case I wanted to represent the Galactic Cirrus (Integrated flux is some new fangled american word coined very recently for something very well known
) in a
realistic way ie it is very
faint. The two galaxies are something like 15mag/squ arc sec while the Cirrus is as low as 28mag/squ arc sec, this area of Cirrus is much fainter than the Apus region for example and also the M81 and M82 region, so to display it artificially bright was not what I was after, the enhanced pos and neg versions I have posted provide the indication of its extent, hence why I posted them and I am happy with that
.
Cheers big ears
Mike
you can see it all in the LRGB, the high contrast stretch just makes it more obvious.
