Ngc 4945

[Martin Pugh]

Hello everyone.

Really enjoying this reprocessing campaign; it is quite gratifying when you take old data/average image and improve on it markedly.

That said, this is NGC 4945 - LRGB of 8.3.3.3 hours.

http://www.martinpughastrophotograph...GC4945LRGB.jpg

and attached is the original version from 2008.

thanks for looking as always.

cheers
Martin

[TheAstroGuy (Shane Ross)]

Martin,

That is absolute GOLD CLASS, i love all the little galaxies you've managed to pull out with such detail too, they are just incredible, it truly is amazing what some people produce such as yourself these days.

What a wonderful shot, my hat is tipped sir


Kind Regards

Shane

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Beautiful repro Martin.
It's fun isn't it, going through old data.

[gregbradley]

Gorgeous shot Martin. I love the rich colours. It makes for a high impact image.

Greg.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Colors are better, nice detail with the Ha and the blue star action in the outer rim area.
I imagine you are missing being able to collect that kind of long focal length data over in USA. I have seen some shorter FL images such as the andromeda galaxy, but don't recall any long focal new images...still have a big scope ??

Clive

[Lester]

Stunning image Martin, thanks for the view.

[multiweb (Marc)]

The colors and contrast are greatly improved in your repro. Terrific work.

[Enrique]

Martin: what did you do differently on the repo?

Thanks,

Enrique

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Beautiful!

Tom

[Martin Pugh]

Thank you all for commenting.

Yes Clive, no hi-res stuff since I relocated. Still have my RC, but its in a box - hoping to go remote one day.

Enrique - essentially I improved on the clarity and contrast of the image, better noise control, but also big colour enhancements. The original version is almost totally lacking in those HII regions and blue star colour - and its definitely there, so I focussed on bringing that out also.

cheers
Martin

[Phil Hart]

WOW! that's incredible. no need to do any more imaging if you can repro like that!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Martin,
I applaude you.

Your processing skills are excellent.
Nice to see an old favourite Galaxy of mine get such beautiful treatment.

Thank you for sharing this great image.

[pvelez (Pete)]

That's a great piece of work. I admire your patience-14 hours!

Pete

[Ric]

Blimey, simply awesome.

Cheers

[Martin Pugh]

...and thank you all. Much appreciated.

cheers
Martin