Sagittarius Mosaic from SPSP 2013

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by naskies

I'm glad you sorted it out

Here's another response from the Adobe forum that explains the issue.

The CS6 factory-default of Bicubic Automatic results in Bicubic Sharper and Bicubic Smoother when reducing and increasing pixel count, respectively. Sharper tends to create hideous oversharpening halos (hence the observed clipping in the histogram) but, hey, Adobe says that's best.

Change the default resampling to plain Bicubic in Preferences > General.

Note that CS6's Transform mode has an independant resampling control in Options bar when a raster layer is targeted. The default for that is Bicubic Automatic so you probably want to set it to plain Bicubic, too.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Octane

That is truly beautiful, Marc.

I love, love, love the subtle processing on this. You could have gone overboard and pushed the saturation to +9000, but, you didn't.

One of your best images to date!

H

Thanks H. When the data is good enough and you have star colors very little processing is involved. Dark skies help a lot.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Yeah, I had a rummage around your sky drive images and it seems to be a characteristic of your work. Your processing is very subtle, and it works.

I couldn't even begin to think about how to achieve what you've done here.
Truly beautiful.

Thanks a lot Sandy for checking the gallery too and the nice feedback. I've been at it again and again for a while now. Each time you get a little better and learn new tricks. It's a slow process and you've got to enjoy the journey. That's all there is to it really.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Really bummed I never got the star party this year. Did you ever put together the time lapse images that you took last year? I'd love to see them. And did you ever get a pair of those bino's from bintel?

Cheers
Sandy

Sure did. They're all here at the bottom. I even got a time lapse of Fred doing a time lapse with his trolley system.
Haven't got a pair of Bino yet no but it's on my list of things. I don't have access to dark skies very often and when I do I image but I remember using yours. Thanks for letting me using the dobs too. I ended up looking around that night and after a couple of hours ended up not imaging at all. See what you've started.

Originally Posted by bloodhound31

Lovely, subtle and fascinating image Marc. This is one you can fall into if you're not careful.

Wonderful work.

Baz.

Thanks a lot Baz. Glad you liked it. This area is so rich in stars of all sizes and variation in colours and density in the various parts of the field it is pretty immersive when you browse around.

[Ross G]

A great looking mosaic Marc.

Sharp and detailed.

The colours are beautiful...great processing.

Ross.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

A great looking mosaic Marc.

Sharp and detailed.

The colours are beautiful...great processing.

Ross.

Thanks mate.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Super mosaic Marc! Great to see it in large scale too; these images need to be viewed like this otherwise all the detail that has been painstakingly stitched together can't be seen.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

This is great Marc, such a cool area of the winter sky, looks good in subtle colours too but a tad more saturation might be worth a look

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Super mosaic Marc! Great to see it in large scale too; these images need to be viewed like this otherwise all the detail that has been painstakingly stitched together can't be seen.

Thanks David. The stitching turned out alright but for a small area 8 o'clock of M8. I think I had a slight field rotation and the stars are going in a different direction from the other panel.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

This is great Marc, such a cool area of the winter sky, looks good in subtle colours too but a tad more saturation might be worth a look

Mike

Thanks Mike. Like this one? I'm in a no saturation phase right now.

Oz skies are so cool in May hey? My fav time of the year. I remember one night about 3 or 4 years ago at the house when we were all looking up. The field was illuminated. The milkyway up ahead was blazing bright. Was bloody cold too.

[jase (Jason)]

Awesome work Marc! Do you know what your average panel overlap percentage was? You've covered the key targets but was it as efficient as you had hoped? Your attention to detail with the seamless panel stitching needs to be commended. Now, to just expand it further to M16 and M17

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by jase

Awesome work Marc! Do you know what your average panel overlap percentage was? You've covered the key targets but was it as efficient as you had hoped? Your attention to detail with the seamless panel stitching needs to be commended. Now, to just expand it further to M16 and M17

Thanks Jase. About 10% but some are a little 'tight'. As you've probably already figured out it wasn't really planned. But for the 4 panels including M8/20 and viscinity. M16/17 are way too far mate. Check this one at 150mm. I'd be still mosaicing into next year.

[jase (Jason)]

M16/17 are not too far away. The image you presented reminds me of my rendition of the region I did back in 2009 - here. Still, you're operating at a different focal length and FoV. Hope to see more of your mosaics in the future.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by jase

M16/17 are not too far away. The image you presented reminds me of my rendition of the region I did back in 2009 - here. Still, you're operating at a different focal length and FoV. Hope to see more of your mosaics in the future.

Great rendition. I remember that one. I'm at 600mm FL F/6.6. I'll tell you what. If I get another good run at Ilford next new moon week-end I'll plot along towards the eagle and the swann. Planning to keep doing color while the milkyway is still up.

[DJT (David)]

That's a great image, beautifully done

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by DJT

That's a great image, beautifully done

Thanks a lot David.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Thanks Mike. Like this one? I'm in a no saturation phase right now.

Yeh that's really nice

Mike

[Shiraz (Ray)]

beautiful work Marc - subtle and detailed. Regards Ray

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh that's really nice

Mike

Originally Posted by Shiraz

beautiful work Marc - subtle and detailed. Regards Ray

Thanks Ray. Glad you like dit.