Been a while since I've had some new data to process. June and July new moons where either clouded out or work commitments dictated early bed times. This month proved to be different.
This is my first shot of M17 at my long FL configuration. Ended up with 86 x 4 minute subs imaged over three nights.
Imaged with the C11 Edge HD with .7x focal reducer (1960mm FL) F7.
Mount - CGEM DX
Canon 60Da @ ISO 800
Integration, 5 hours 44 minutes in total.
Calibrated with darks and flats, processed in Pixinsight.
That is a pretty slick Omega there Rod. Good detail and star colour looks good too. Maybe the nebulosity looks a little brown, but there is lots to like. Nice smooth back ground too. Well done
Really good Rod! What a vista, I like seeing the Swan in this orientation, anything else looks wrong or upside down to me
MINOR POINT...The wavelet/sharpening ie bright thin lines, is still juuust visible though ..maybe a slight re-blend to satisfy my obsessive compulsive wavelet/decon phobia....please? ...or, just ignore me
Stunning Rod. I like it a lot. Great colours and really nice detail in the Neb.
Cheers Rex! Glad you like it mate.
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Originally Posted by Somnium
Beautifully done !
Thanks Aidan!
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Originally Posted by DJScotty
Stunning image. Superb detail and colors.
Love it
Thanks Scotty, It was good to have some new data to play with after a couple of months.
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
That is a pretty slick Omega there Rod. Good detail and star colour looks good too. Maybe the nebulosity looks a little brown, but there is lots to like. Nice smooth back ground too. Well done
Thanks very much Paul! I normally just go with what ever PI's colour cal comes up with but with this one, I pushed the red channel in curves a bit to showcase a bit data/signal. Perhaps I pushed it a touch to far creating the brown?
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Really good Rod! What a vista, I like seeing the Swan in this orientation, anything else looks wrong or upside down to me
MINOR POINT...The wavelet/sharpening ie bright thin lines, is still juuust visible though ..maybe a slight re-blend to satisfy my obsessive compulsive wavelet/decon phobia....please? ...or, just ignore me
Mike
Thanks Mike! Yeah I get dizzy when M17 is in any other position.
Ah yes You know what Mike, every time I include my decon routine in the work flow, I have a little Mike Sidonio sitting on my shoulder whispering "That's too many iterations, back it off a bit or he'll notice" I did also do some wavelet sharpening at the end too, maybe that was too much?
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Great shot Rod. Nice image scale. Tight stars and beaute colors. One for the cool wall.
Thanks Marc! Yeah the stars are getting better I think? I have noticed I have a bit of backlash in RA that I could probably tighten up mechanically, which may help guiding and results in future. The full image is a 50% resample of the full res and the biggest resolution I've posted, so I'm slowly gaining confidence in data acquisition and processing.
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Originally Posted by RobC
Top marks Rod. You are creating excellent imagery.
Rob
Cheers Rob! Really enjoying it at the moment. Thanks for the support.
Thanks Mike! Yeah I get dizzy when M17 is in any other position.
Ah yes You know what Mike, every time I include my decon routine in the work flow, I have a little Mike Sidonio sitting on my shoulder whispering "That's too many iterations, back it off a bit or he'll notice" I did also do some wavelet sharpening at the end too, maybe that was too much?
Sorry, it is more my problem than yours I think Rod , there are plenty out there that wouldn't even notice . I just think detail needs to be real and not manufactured, wavelettes and decon do manufacture pseudo detail if not very careful. If you can see thin bright wiggly lines or tiny uniform dot like detail...it's a dead give away. It is only subtly noticeable in this image anyway.
Sorry, it is more my problem than yours I think Rod , there are plenty out there that wouldn't even notice . I just think detail needs to be real and not manufactured, wavelettes and decon do manufacture pseudo detail if not very careful. If you can see thin bright wiggly lines or tiny uniform dot like detail...it's a dead give away. It is only subtly noticeable in this image anyway.
Now...where's my straight jacket
Mike
Mike - Curiosity has got the better of me. Please draws some arrows on Rod's image to show where the wiggly lines or tiny uniform dot are created by the deconvolution processing.
No need for me to draw arrows all over Rod's image, the effect I notice is only subtle and I'm not going to subject his Swan to disfigurement by pointing out some minor artefacts in her feathers, if you can't see'em then that's good . Besides, I think Rod knows what I am saying, the image is really quite good and my observations were of something fairly trivial and my comments were just friendly and light-hearted
Nice work Rod. Good wide field and lots of sharp detail. I would push the saturation a bit more, but I guess that comes down to personal preference.
Geoff
Uhh … I can’t see the wiggly lines or tiny uniform dots; my spectacles must be out of date …
But without them what I can see is a really fine M17
Thanks Ian
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Wow, that is an excellent image!! Great work
Cheers Hugh!
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Originally Posted by ghsmith45
Nice work Rod. Good wide field and lots of sharp detail. I would push the saturation a bit more, but I guess that comes down to personal preference.
Geoff
Cheers Geoff!
Thanks for the feedback. I must admit I'm conservative (or indecisive) when adjusting colour saturation.
This month proved to be different. 
..maybe a slight re-blend to satisfy my obsessive compulsive wavelet/decon phobia....please? 
...or, just ignore me 
I normally just go with what ever PI's colour cal comes up with but with this one, I pushed the red channel in curves a bit to showcase a bit data/signal. Perhaps I pushed it a touch to far creating the brown?
, there are plenty out there that wouldn't even notice 
. I think we're on the same page there. 
