The framing is a bit weird though..I guess to get a suitable guide star?
Yeh, not as good as Peters electron microscope result, sure, but the level of detail in your dust lane is still quite good, you probably just need better seeing both within the scope and in the overhead atmosphere to get any better than this? It looks clipped to me though ie sky is too dark and galaxy halo cuts in too abruptly...although at least you can't see processing induced gradient steps in "your" halo
The framing is a bit weird though..I guess to get a suitable guide star?
Yeh, not as good as Peters electron microscope result, sure, but the level of detail in your dust lane is still quite good, you probably just need better seeing both within the scope and in the overhead atmosphere to get any better than this? It looks clipped to me though ie sky is too dark and galaxy halo cuts in too abruptly...although at least you can't see processing induced gradient steps in "your" halo
Nice job
Mike
Yes Mike, I processed the living hell out of it, but tried hard to keep some of the nasties out. The seeing wasn't that great last night, but I'm happy with the detail I managed to exude from the data.
Calibrate your monitor fella (or just get a Mac), I've found that many of my pics look completely different on PC's rather than my Mac, apparently it's a monitor gamma setting, but I do colour critical work for a magazine on this one, so I'm confident the background is not clipped (too much!).
Just some general observations The stars look asymmetric to me, suggesting the optics needed colimination.
In so far as my effort goes, don't forget a 10" scope has to expose for 2x as long to get the same flux as a 14" plus most SCT's run at around a 80% strehl, hence the airy disks are going to be down around 15-18% compared to a top shelf APO or RC.
That said....some nice detail in the lanes. Good effort.
Yes Mike, I processed the living hell out of it, but tried hard to keep some of the nasties out. The seeing wasn't that great last night, but I'm happy with the detail I managed to exude from the data.
Calibrate your monitor fella (or just get a Mac), I've found that many of my pics look completely different on PC's rather than my Mac, apparently it's a monitor gamma setting, but I do colour critical work for a magazine on this one, so I'm confident the background is not clipped (too much!).
Cheers
Stuart
Actually my monitor is pretty good.......
The clipping was pretty low level but it did look to me as though the halo cut off just a bit too abruptly..?
