Combining OLD and newer data

[LewisM]

It's attrocious weather up here in SEQ, so I decided to try to merge the data from 2 years ago of NGC 3324 taken with a Skywatcher ED100 and Canon 5DMKII (not modded) and newer Ha-LRGB data taken with the sadly gone FSQ106EDXIII (SBIG ST-8XE).

Unfortunately, I only had a JPEG to work with from the ED100, and OVER deconvoluted too, so some stars will look really YAK! The FSQ dat is cleaner, and different scale, so had to work around a few rescales etc. There is a blend splice error in the bottom left, but this is a throw away image anyway.

Just passing the time... seeing how far I could take this one. Total exposure, combined, I think is something ludicrous like 1 hr 15 minutes.

Comments saying it is good will be outright rejected and received as mollycoddling

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Ok Lewis no mollycoddling !

Can you post a less compressed version somewhere?
Very hard to tell anything from this one.

Cheers,

Justin.

[leon]

OK, it is terrible, but at least you filled in a couple of hours.

Leon

[LewisM]

Thanks guys... I knew it was good

Justin, you want to see this caca uncompressed? You silly man you.

[el_draco (Rom)]

Very nice... Molly

[atalas]

Good effort Lewis.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Ignoring the dark rings around the stars from jpeg artifacts, it's still a very pretty shot, which I would guess is why you posted it. More data would help smooth that out anyway.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

..........ok...nice colour!

[LewisM]

Gee Mike... I think the colour is flamboyantly tacky myelf.

Just the idle musings of a bored person... I disrespected the light

This was really meant as a half-hearted joke... seriously, if some of you say its good, I knows ya flat face lieing. Heck, you can still see half my astrobin watermark bottom right...

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

But I like flamboyantly tacky.

[Elio]

Nice repro Lewis... and good luck for weather

[RB (Andrew)]

If the Universe was full of these, it'd be an awful waste of space....
Now pass me the Vodka.

[LewisM]

I luv ya too Andrew

Get your own vodka... you drink ouzo anyway

[RB (Andrew)]

You're good value mate.

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by RB

You're good value mate.

Yup, $1.50 easily.