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Old 17-07-2007, 09:37 AM
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My rendition of M20

Hi All!

In spite of the minus 1.4 degrees C my frosted thermometer reached during Saturday night , I managed my second colour shot of my astro imaging career.

Hope you enjoy.

http://www.pbase.com/image/82314316/large

Details and waffle underneath the image.

Cheers, Marcus
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Old 17-07-2007, 10:03 AM
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Very nice image Marcus, well done !

Man what a great setup, looking forward to more from you.
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Old 17-07-2007, 10:34 AM
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A very lovely image Marcus, great colours, pinpoint stars and some top detail.

I must agree as well your setup is an impressive one.

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Old 17-07-2007, 11:17 AM
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Marcus, it has been a long time between posts. A marked improvement on your first (NGC2070).

Indeed, slightly oversampled (though I don't know what your conditions where on the night - obviously more the 1 arcsec). Oversampled data is easily fixed with a few iterations of deconvolution to keep objects looking tight.

Your processing needs more work, you've really black clipped the red channel and subtly the green. I suspect you've set the black point to early on in your processing routine which has caused this. This is usually one of the last things I do before finalisation.

I also feel you could have brought the colours out a little more. Perhaps the use of the non-linear stretch using PS shadow/highlights tool on the chrominance data instead of curves or hue/saturation controls. You may also wish to try different ways of introducing your luminance data so you maintain a balance of luminance resolution and chrominance data.

Look forward to seeing more images with this great ota/mount/camera combination.

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Old 21-07-2007, 10:42 PM
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Your processing needs more work, you've really black clipped the red channel and subtly the green. I suspect you've set the black point to early on in your processing routine which has caused this. This is usually one of the last things I do before finalisation.

I also feel you could have brought the colours out a little more.
Thanks for the tips Jase. I had another go at processing. I think this version looks better.

http://www.pbase.com/image/82314316/large

I brought out the colour more (hopefully not too much though) and sharpened things up a tad.

Cheers, Marcus
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Old 22-07-2007, 12:58 AM
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Very sexy!

Boy such crappy equipment Markus, how do you cope?

Very nicely imaged, I can see some great work is going to be coming from you as time goes by.

That TOA looks neeeeeearly as sexy as my AP Starfire

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Old 22-07-2007, 09:13 AM
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Nice Markus! much nicer with the second process!!! pitty the seeing let all that fine gear down!!
Still it is a fine image of m20 and you are doing a fine job of your processing!
I hate to think what my first LRGB images would look like...lol
cheers and hope you get some good seeing soon!!
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Old 22-07-2007, 10:26 PM
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Very nicely imaged, I can see some great work is going to be coming from you as time goes by.
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That TOA looks neeeeeearly as sexy as my AP Starfire
Sexy??? I hadn't noticed
"Nearly" as sexy as a Starfire??!!
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Old 23-07-2007, 07:14 AM
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hi Marcus,

that is a supercool rendition of the trifid nebula!
perfect round stars, very nice colors and huge amount of details!
WHOW!
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