Sorry about the late reply, chaps. Got all involved in the colour version and didn't look.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
It's a marvellous image M&T!  Yep, extra heavy stretching will have that effect but you should be able to mitigate those effects. I dare say seeing is likely to be the main bugbear in your image.
If it were me, I'd tighten things up a little and you can do that without affecting depth much at all. I had a play and applied some wavelet and star reduction with very good effect.
BTW - seeing is what afflicts my 7424 image - not stretching. I did not do any heavy stretching on that image - ie beyond the norm. The seeing is what killed me. |
Thanks Marcus. Good advice. We've tried to make the colour version a little more crunchy. Since then, disaster has struck at Placidus, - both computer and dome roof issues, so we're going to be watching a lot of movies.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Very deep shot Mike. Really cool. |
Thanks mark!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Very grand Mike and Trish, t'is a fantastic galaxy, probably my favourite of the bright galaxies, the arms look so solid, very nice work
If it were possible, I wonder how close this would be to the eyepiece view through say one of the 8m scopes on Cerro Pachon 
Mike |
Cheers, Mike. As mentioned, we're down to using binoculars ourselves at the moment.
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Originally Posted by Regulus
So glad I looked at the full size version! It looks majestic in that large velvety star field.
That's a very nice image guys.
Trev
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Thanks Trevor.
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Originally Posted by andyc
Wow! really deep there and so many details! The soft-ness of the stars also takes a little away for me [EDIT] just seen the colour version - looks fantastic with a little less softness and rich colour. Nicely done!
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Hi, Andy. Glad you find the colour version a bit crisper.
Best,
Mike and Trish.
