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Old 27-06-2014, 02:58 PM
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Fighting Dragons of Ara 2014 update

I recently combined some higher res AG12 data collected from steady Canberra skies with my old 2011 data taken from blurry Newcastle skies .

The result is the beautiful NGC 6164 is seen in higher res now

The Fighting Dragons of Ara

Of course I blended the newer data set in so as to match the original as naturally as possible as simply posting high res data into a lower res field can look pretty obvious...but here is the new (smaller FOV displayed at full resolution) data set that was combined: NGC 6164 note: while the seeing was much better than Newcastle it still wasn't the best I see here at Wallaroo.

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Old 27-06-2014, 03:20 PM
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i love ngc 6164 and what an awesome picture - loving the resolution!

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Old 27-06-2014, 03:25 PM
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Very nice, Mike. Congrats! Do you still have the old version around for comparison purposes?
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Old 27-06-2014, 03:41 PM
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what's the bubble in the lower left?
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Old 27-06-2014, 04:33 PM
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what's the bubble in the lower left?
It's NGC 6164/6165:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=121891
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Old 27-06-2014, 04:34 PM
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Cheers guys

Ricki...he he, try googling Fighting Dragons of Ara

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Old 27-06-2014, 04:37 PM
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Cheers guys

Ricki...he he, try googling Fighting Dragons of Ara

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Won't that point me back at the same modified image on Pbase, Mike? You usually update the image and the old one disappears?

Here's another 6164/6165 for ya, Hobbit:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=121174
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Old 27-06-2014, 05:06 PM
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I love that object - and that's a cracker of an image!
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Old 27-06-2014, 06:53 PM
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Yes, thats a cracker Mike. A tad WFW, but heaps of detail and pleasure to view.
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Old 27-06-2014, 10:32 PM
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A lovely image Mike,
you should present that for an APOD.

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Old 27-06-2014, 10:50 PM
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Oh ya's for checkin it out and passing comment guys it is just an old good'un image revamped

Due to the atrocious seeing conditions I experienced in Newcastle I never was happy with the resolution, especially in NGC 6164, so it was long overdue to touch that section of the image up ...be good to touch the whole image up but...meah, that would take too long

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Old 27-06-2014, 10:51 PM
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Won't that point me back at the same modified image on Pbase, Mike? You usually update the image and the old one disappears?
He he trust me Rick, try googling Fighting Dragons of Ara

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Old 27-06-2014, 11:29 PM
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Incredible details and colors!
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Old 28-06-2014, 08:52 AM
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Yeah, I went for some colour Luiz

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Old 28-06-2014, 01:55 PM
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What an amazing capture and nebula! Beautifully processed Mike
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Beautiful Mike!

Did you do much star reduction?
Or is that just how it comes out in NB?

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Old 28-06-2014, 09:09 PM
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Beautiful Mike!

Did you do much star reduction?
Or is that just how it comes out in NB?

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Cheers Mo and Justin and yep that is how the stars came out, generally I do little or nothing to my stars..given my general aversion to deconvolution and all

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Looking very good there Mike. I am not a big fan of green in astro images but apart from that personal taste its got a lot going for it. I do like the way stars are very natural in your images and I think that is a very good thing. Tons of detail, perhaps a bit oversharpened in places?

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Old 29-06-2014, 12:54 AM
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Looking very good there Mike. I am not a big fan of green in astro images but apart from that personal taste its got a lot going for it. I do like the way stars are very natural in your images and I think that is a very good thing. Tons of detail, perhaps a bit oversharpened in places?

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Cheers Greggles... not a fan of green huh? I'll mention that to The Hulk

Oversharpened you recon?...ah well, at least there are no deconvolution or wavelet worms

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