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Old 20-08-2013, 11:26 PM
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A very ugly Astrofest 2013 Swan
this is 24 x 150 seconds at f2 with a C11 and a hyperstar with Celestron nightscape one shot CCD. stacked in astrofx and processed in Pixinsight, resized iin Photoshop for here

this is the first try

Edit - added repro tweak
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It's a great FOV Dave.
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Old 21-08-2013, 06:50 AM
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It's a great FOV Dave.
thanks JJJ, i didnt realise there was so much there
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Old 21-08-2013, 07:21 AM
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Nice result, David!
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Old 21-08-2013, 07:28 AM
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thanks laurie - have added a tweak version
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Old 21-08-2013, 10:06 AM
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Well done, H0ughy! At an hour per object you could image a lot of objects in one Astrofest
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Well done, H0ughy! At an hour per object you could image a lot of objects in one Astrofest
now that would be good - lots of targets out there
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Old 21-08-2013, 12:40 PM
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Very nice! So many stars in a widefield.
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Very nice! So many stars in a widefield.
yeah too many - it takes the attention away from the neb
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Very nice Houghy. There is so much there.
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Old 22-08-2013, 09:24 AM
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Very nice Houghy. There is so much there.
thanks Earl
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Old 22-08-2013, 09:38 AM
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Good stuff - 1 hour? Lots of signal there.....
It's upside-down though mate...
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Nice wide field, not ugly at all.

One suggestion is green noise is quite high. Try an SCNR with green average as the option in pixinsight, it may clean the image even further.
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Nutting ugly about these David , nice clean photos , especially at f2 .
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Old 22-08-2013, 07:26 PM
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Good stuff - 1 hour? Lots of signal there.....
It's upside-down though mate...
just for you
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Nice wide field, not ugly at all.

One suggestion is green noise is quite high. Try an SCNR with green average as the option in pixinsight, it may clean the image even further.
snot the same on every monitor but will look into it and pick a goodone
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