Omega Cent in HD

Peter Ward · #1 24-07-2011, 11:46 PM

This is some old data that had been bugging me for some time, due registration errors.

While not completely gone they have been reduced...and presented below in High Def resolution.... it's a big file , about 2meg.

The image data is here

Mighty_oz (Marcus) · #2 25-07-2011, 12:01 AM

Wow

Ken Crawford (KenC) · #3 25-07-2011, 03:11 AM

Beautiful! That is one target I wish I was able to get before I shut down my observatory in Moorook. Wow!

bartman (Bart) · #4 25-07-2011, 05:24 AM

Whoaha!!!!

Dont know what to say.......

bartman

iceman (Mike) · #5 25-07-2011, 06:22 AM

Weather been getting you down, Pete? Resorting to old data

Lovely image, right in your face!

jase (Jason) · #6 25-07-2011, 09:03 AM

Nicely done! Was the colour binned or is that the registration errors you mention?

Peter Ward · #7 25-07-2011, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by jase

Nicely done! Was the colour binned or is that the registration errors you mention?

No, un binned. I suspect the seeing had a lot to do with the mis-match

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Originally Posted by iceman

Weather been getting you down, Pete? Resorting to old data

Lovely image, right in your face!

Rain? what Rain?... Floods maybe

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Originally Posted by bartman

Whoaha!!!!

Dont know what to say.......

bartman

That'll do

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Originally Posted by Ken Crawford

Beautiful! That is one target I wish I was able to get before I shut down my observatory in Moorook. Wow!

Thanks Ken... This one's OK, but I suspect it needs to be captured during better seeing. On the "to do" list

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Originally Posted by Mighty_oz

Wow

Ta!

DavidU (Dave) · #8 25-07-2011, 11:43 AM

Very nice indeed. Great colours very tidy processing.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #9 25-07-2011, 12:06 PM

Beautiful job

SkyViking (Rolf) · #10 25-07-2011, 12:10 PM

That's very nice and tight. Great to see an image of Omega with such resolution.

gregbradley · #11 25-07-2011, 04:56 PM

That's a very high impact image. I like the different star colours.

If seeing affected the different colours (I've had that happen to me where the seeing improved during the night or worsened, often blue cops it) perhaps different levels of deconvolution on the different colours to bring them to a similar size. I think PixInsight can do this as well.

Greg.

Peter Ward · #12 25-07-2011, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidU

Very nice indeed. Great colours very tidy processing.

Thanks mate.

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Originally Posted by mswhin63

Beautiful job

Glad you like it.

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Originally Posted by SkyViking

That's very nice and tight. Great to see an image of Omega with such resolution.

Ta. Omega I suspect is an object that could have a real wow factor with great seeing and lots of focal length... Not quite there yet

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Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a very high impact image. I like the different star colours.....

.........If seeing affected the different colours .....

Greg.

Thanks Greg. I have no doubt seeing played a big part. Most stars had lovely symmetry, others didn't....humm ..very typical of fine structures in Solar/Lunar imaging

Haven't played much with Pixelinsight....but hear it got many thumbs up at AAIC...another "to do" list item

Osirisra (Ken) · #13 25-07-2011, 05:22 PM

Holly S#&t!, nice one!!

multiweb (Marc) · #14 25-07-2011, 06:14 PM

One for the cool wall.

Hagar (Doug) · #15 25-07-2011, 06:18 PM

Magnificent Peter. The detail to the core is wonderful but being a bit picky the background seems to have compression artifacts or something which would bug me if it was my image. Just wondering how much compression you had to use to crunch this down to 2MB.
I can see your registration problems but they don't detract from the core detail which grabs the eye straight away.
Beautiful Peter, It is a keeper even with the registration problems.

Peter Ward · #16 25-07-2011, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Hagar

Magnificent Peter. The detail to the core is wonderful but being a bit picky the background seems to have compression ...........

Sentiment noted...and thanks...but to post on the web, you gotta break some pixels (no-one would thank me for a 10 meg download)

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Originally Posted by multiweb

One for the cool wall.

I can live with that

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Originally Posted by Osirisra

Holly S#&t!, nice one!!

Lester · #17 25-07-2011, 07:17 PM

Definately one to hang on the wall. Thanks for the view Peter.

TrevorW · #18 25-07-2011, 07:54 PM

FOV is to crowded IMO and not sure about the star colouring but nice one anyhow

Cheers

Octane (Humayun) · #19 25-07-2011, 09:13 PM

Resolved to the core -- stunning!

H

Peter Ward · #20 25-07-2011, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Octane

Resolved to the core -- stunning!

H

Thanks H.

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Originally Posted by TrevorW

FOV is to crowded IMO and not sure about the star colouring but nice one anyhow

Cheers

Ever see the film Amadeus? (the composer was accused of "too many notes" ) ....I could photoshop some stars away....or tell some stars to "move along'"....but then again....

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Originally Posted by Lester

Definately one to hang on the wall. Thanks for the view Peter.

Glad you like the vista.