Excellent image Fred ... really a superb capture. I am not experienced enough to offer any technical comment, so can only comment from the visual point of view. So glad also that there is a new thread to look at, the last one was OK for awhile but Im afraid Im over it.
Hope I can point my scope at this object at some time and come close to this effort.
Wow! man that's some funky **** you have done on your site. When I
scrolled down I realised I have your M8 image as my desktop lol, hope
you didn't mind.
no GRAS here. well done fred beautiful galaxy. maybe slighttlyy purplish...
Thanks Eric, purple:I wonder what it really looks like . Jases NGC253 is bluer (and most others), sigh, it just looked astetic.
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Originally Posted by Jeffkop
Excellent image Fred ... really a superb capture. I am not experienced enough to offer any technical comment, so can only comment from the visual point of view. So glad also that there is a new thread to look at, the last one was OK for awhile but Im afraid Im over it.
Hope I can point my scope at this object at some time and come close to this effort.
Thanks Jeff, "that" thread is interesting, never the less. I have view restrictions too, you just wait till it comes round . And that lack of choice at any one time, just forces more data of the same thing to keep busy. More data of one thing is better than lots of short, average images.
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Originally Posted by peeb61
Great image Fred...just stunning!
Taa peeb (?)
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Originally Posted by CoombellKid
Hey Fred,
Lovely image mate!!!, one of my Fav's NGC253
Wow! man that's some funky **** you have done on your site. When I
scrolled down I realised I have your M8 image as my desktop lol, hope
you didn't mind.
Thanks for posting : )
regards,CS
Thanks Rob. On yr desktop?, Im honoured , anytime. NGC253 is a bit messy in places, I think diffuse cloud obscures some of it. M104 can look better on a good night.
Sorry Fred. You know how it is...you can do better. Look at the histogram dude. Black clipped in all channels.For 9 hours lum, i feel certain you'd have nothing to hide so can't see the reasoning behind the clipping. I surprised you didn't notice as that's whats causing the dark magenta hue across the image - the green channel is clipped more than the red and blue (red+blue=purple). I'm not sure if you look at colour cards when you process. I find it helps as you can determine what colour interacts with what and more importantly determine ways to negate the colour shifts you dont want. They've good for neutralising backgrounds. If you use curves to boost the green channel, you see a much more aesthetic result. I think a repro is in order.
This is the second purple image I've seen tonight.
You and Mike have me worried as I'm doing colour critical work tonight.
I was relieved to see others have mentioned the purple hue.
Still no go...(see attached) actually what you're clipping is the background gradients by the looks of things, but there are a few faint fuzzies that don't look right.
Yeh I guess there are some minor technical issues but hey overall it's an impressive image Fred! Looks like you are right on top of the galaxy (just the way you like it huh? )
Like Jase's Helix though (err?..have we discussed that image by the way...?) this FOV doesn't really do the galaxy justice to me, it's like looking through a not fully open window. I know you can just keep going on and on with the mega data ie set and forget with your system without too much worries but (and it is just a question not a real critisism) why didn't you rotate the camera just a little to fit the entire galaxy in?
wow, im glad you like it generally Mike, nice change, its all starting to get to me lately, not getting it right etc. Im on a redo right now due to a regular Jase hammering. Yes, the FOV aint ideal, it urks me too, but Im buggered if Im gunna rotate the cam with a whole new set of flats for one object. Megadata also means I image 2 or more objects at the same time over a few weeks, depending on Moon, weather and position (ha, then RGB non moon), so sometimes the rotation doesnt suit one of them.
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. I have view restrictions too, you just wait till it comes round 
, anytime. NGC253 is a bit messy in places, I think diffuse cloud obscures some of it. M104 can look better on a good night.
For 9 hours lum, i feel certain you'd have nothing to hide so can't see the reasoning behind the clipping. I surprised you didn't notice as that's whats causing the dark magenta hue across the image - the green channel is clipped more than the red and blue (red+blue=purple). I'm not sure if you look at colour cards when you process. I find it helps as you can determine what colour interacts with what and more importantly determine ways to negate the colour shifts you dont want. They've good for neutralising backgrounds. If you use curves to boost the green channel, you see a much more aesthetic result. I think a repro is in order.
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(just the way you like it huh? 
