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Originally Posted by Ross G
Hi Rob,
Smooth, sharp and great colours.
An excellent photo.
Ross.
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Many thanks Ross
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Originally Posted by multiweb
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Thanks Marc - it was a really pleasant surprise when I started stretching this one just how the blues began to come up in the centre of the neb. I love those moments in this hobby - guess they're our "hole in ones" (or maybe just birdies?
). Guess I'm understanding a bit more what drives people to do the 10 and 20 hr marathons now.
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Originally Posted by Deeno
Lovely!!
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Thanks for looking Deeno
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Originally Posted by Dennis
Hi Rob
Wow, I haven’t spent much time in the Deep Space section of the Forum recently and it has certainly been my loss when I see the quality of your images. These are beautiful photos and I love the processing that has revealed the curtains of nebulosity cascading down the frame. Lovely job! 
Cheers
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I'm glad you stopped by Dennis. Your photos have given me lots of pleasure over the years so that means a lot to me.
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Originally Posted by telecasterguru
A very pleasing image.
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Thanks Frank!
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Originally Posted by jenchris
Crisp and delighful - like a lettuce leaf!
Sorry no it's remarkable - beautiful the stars look so homogenous and real.
Proper 3Dish
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Thanks Jennifer - I seemed to be able to crop in on this one a lot more than usual, probably because the amount of data has softened any nasties in the stars a lot more than usual. Glad you liked it.
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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Great job Rob. It's gratifying to see the QHY9 doing this from, as you say, the burbs. I'll have to get mine out and actually use it one day. |
Yep - hard to beat for bang for buck Chris. Really does open up new possibilities for those on a budget.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
A lovely rendition of an old favorite Rob. Nice and smooth with great detail and colour. Well done!
Cheers, Marcus
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Thanks lots Marcus - I had your sumptuous colour schemes in mind a bit when I pushed this one must confess - love the wonderful hues of blues and oranges you make look so easy. Peter W's wonderful M17 repro recently inspiration too I guess.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Yeh that's a great Swan Rob, beautiful colours and some great detail, the radiating lines in the nebula behind the neck are a good indicator of the detail displayed, can't ask for much more on this one
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Thanks Mike. I've put this one to the back burner to do for a long time because I thought it didn't have a lot to offer, but realise that wasn't at all correct. I was really excited at how much this one allowed zooming/cropping and a bit of upscaling - my images usually fall apart pretty quick as you close in. No danger of having as much real estate to swim in as the FLI's "SAO sensor" though!
Just wondering now - if a repro is a "Sidonio", then is cooking up a new abstract name for an object and FOV a "Mike".....
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
I like the wider field of view Rob. It has a lovely balance to the image. Colour is good and very smooth. Well done.
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You can actually see the original FOV in an earlier image in my Picasa album Paul. I stumbled across the FOV shown while rotating and zooming to try and visualise the centre neb detail. Liked this aspect as it also accentuated the "heart" - I'm glad I was able to keep the brighter star in there in the end too.
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Originally Posted by Stevec35
Just about perfect in my opinion.
Cheers
Steve
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No, never perfect Steve, but thanks anyway. Actually you always learn more trying to push better data, and I'm sure I could easily spend twice as long getting smooth star colours and playing a bit more selective sharpening of the neb. Then again, often you end up realising subtle and soft is best. As long as its fun
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Originally Posted by Hagar
Thats lovely Rob. Nice and sharp tiny stars and great colours. I like it.
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I was really happy with this one Doug - think its one of my best to date - thanks for that
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
You've nailed this one! It's a beauty.
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Thank you mi-lady
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Originally Posted by Screwdriverone
Very nice Rob, colours and contrast, details are excellent......however....
It seems everyone is saying this is pretty much perfect, is it just me or are all the stars elongated in the South West quadrant (8 o'clock) position????
You can see it in the larger orange and blue stars....particularly eggy shaped. It doesnt seem to be coma as it looks constant across the whole field...
Not trying to be critical, but its the first thing I noticed and something seems amiss here.
Hope my eyes arent failing on me?
Can anyone else see this? 
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You're right Chris - they're not perfect, and in fact to my surprise collecting a lot of data actually smoothed the stars a little. Probably because the images have collectively been registered back on to the frame with the tightest and roundest stars. In fact I still routinely run with almost 2 inches of focuser tube protruding into the lightpath, so the mid-brightness stars frequently show a "bite out the apple" effect which is a little bit masked by one of the diffraction spikes. There's also a little bit of diagonal smearing where tracking has wandered in RA and DEC from time to time, but again stacking so much data averages out many of these evils. We're not talking Feathertouch focuser here either, so I suspect there's a smidge of movement with the focuser and camera mount fittings. I debated using some of Pixinsight's morphological transform functions get more spherical stars, but hadn't resorted to any noise removal and thought I'd try and keep it more "honest" in the end. I might have disguised these star issues a bit more by posting the wider field, but I really like this aspect, so posted the crops.
I may well go back to the PI guys and ask for their thoughts on workflow for this one. A had a few gos and only once was able to pull out anything like the stars colours here, so there's still far too much serendipity in the processing for my liking.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Maybe you need one of these Chris?  ...the stars look near perfect to me, some slight flaring in the area you describe but nothing I would be concerned about. |
I think that's what the neighbours think I might be up to some nights Mike when they look down from their deck and see this guy with a "miner's light" stuck on his head poking around in the back yard.....
