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[batema (Mark)]

Another fine night. Yahoooooo.

24 x 4 Min lights with darks, flats and bias frames applied. Taken through my W/O Flt 110 and Canon 400d at ISO 800 guided with PHD and stacked DSS and Photoshop cs4. Feel free to offer advice.

Mark

[trent_julie]

Nice capture!

[Octane (Humayun)]

You should be very happy, Mark, that's a beautiful capture.

One of my favourites!

H

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great shot Mark. I love that cluster.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Mark. So many stars and such a big field. Please post a bigger image so I can scan arround a bit. Looses something when it's so small.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

It's a wee ripper of an image Mark.
It was great to catch up again. Sorry I forgot to say good night to you both on Saturday.

[batema (Mark)]

Thank you all and no worries JJJ. I don't know how to post a bigger image as I think I am limited to 200kB and this is pretty close and I do not have an account. Suggestions.

[John Hothersall]

Lovely cluster and background, so rich.

John.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice shot Mark.

If you want to load a bigger image to IIS try this. Its quick, simple and does a pretty good job:
Have image open in PS
Go:
Image>Image Size. Set the width to around 900-1000>Ok
File>save as> Name file and set directory and file type as Jpeg> Save >Jpeg Options: adjust slider to get total size at the right below 200kb.>Ok

You really only need about 850 pixels in image width to fill the screen in IIS but a bit bigger gives some room to move around and not sacrifice too much detail for compression. It works very well. If you want to upload a bigger image, say 1200 pixels then just adjust the slider to the size you want.

When you are in the Jpeg Options box you can check the changes by clicking the preview tick off and on. BTW this is all with CS3

[batema (Mark)]

I save and process my image as a tiff and if I used this and try to save it as a JPG that option is not there so I open the high res jpg and did Pauls procedure. Wish me luck.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

'at's a better size.

Actually Mark the size you have uploaded is great for showing the effect of automatic compression. If you click repeatedly on the 'Fit Image to Window" Icon, you will see the loss in resolution in just autoresizing just that small amount. Well it does on my laptop screen. There is a significant loss of resolution in downsizing just a small bit.,

When uploading its so easy and important for people to manage their own image compression rather than let software guess the right amount. Particularly for astroimages when resolution remains paramount throughout the whole process. PS also has a great Save For Web and Devices option as well that gives even greater control.

[allan gould]

Great image and well captured.

[gregbradley]

Great image. Its hard to think with this many stars so close together they look like sand. How close together are they? 3 or 4 per light year?

Greg.