frustrated eagle...

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

The weather woes continue in the west, with only another 4 hours of imaging time a week or so ago. High cloud bloated the blue subs and I lost half the luminance subs as well.
So I used the 3 good H-alpha subs and all the other channel integrations to produce a super-luminance in pixinsight. A bit of deconvolution to try and restore some sharpness, although it turns the brightest stars into donuts.
Still - it's better than I ever got with my 10"!
high res version here:
http://www.astrobin.com/309412/B/
thanks for looking,
Andrew.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice work andrew - sometimes when i look at the pic i think it's a bit posterized but then again sometimes not - i can't decide. anyway awesome setup and nice detail nonetheless!

cheers
russ

[Atmos (Colin)]

Looks like it has been shot through a MASSIVE achro
Detail is good

[multiweb (Marc)]

Lot of potential. The details in the nebulosity and pillars are outstanding.

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Lot of potential. The details in the nebulosity and pillars are outstanding.

Thanks Marc, I was very pleasantly surprised when I compared the superluminance frame to the famous Hubble 'pillars' image. It's only about 3 hours worth all up!

Originally Posted by Atmos

Looks like it has been shot through a MASSIVE achro
Detail is good

Thanks Colin, One day the right combination of seeing, clouds, moon and technology will line up and I will finally get a decent swag of data that will do this thing justice!

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

nice work andrew - sometimes when i look at the pic i think it's a bit posterized but then again sometimes not - i can't decide. anyway awesome setup and nice detail nonetheless!

cheers
russ

Thanks Russ, given the limited dataset I can safely say that you're not far off, and there is not 1 bit more detail in there before the histogram stretch goes horribly wrong!

[DJT (David)]

That's pretty good.

Pity about the stars. a bit of trial and error with local deringing support and the star masks night solve this. You could also do convolution just on the larger stars to fix them?