Now, by odd, I assume you mean the small halos around some of the stars..? These halos are more prominent in NB and the heavy stretching I did plus the fact there is no RGB star data (which shows no halos) has made'em a bit more obvious
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Mike
Hang on, you mean that stretched NB stars are going to have halos, but RGB will not. How does that work?
And if that's the case, is it worth considering using a starmask to control the amount of stretch on the stars themselves?
That you achieved this in one bright and moonlit night is extraordinary.
Bravo.
Yeah I am like a human automated machine for imaging sessions these days...I work like clockwork, the Robert Evans of imaging automation
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Oh..my eyes...my eyes...I can't see any more...
He he..Mike, looks great though, I like it!
Ha ha, cool...sorry bout your eyes Bart
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Hang on, you mean that stretched NB stars are going to have halos, but RGB will not. How does that work?
And if that's the case, is it worth considering using a starmask to control the amount of stretch on the stars themselves?
Or maybe even just replace 'em all with RGB stars
I do use star masks usually, but in a nut shell, I probably should have taken much more data and not at full moon (particularly with the wider 12nm NB's), not guassian stretched the OIII (or any of the filters really ) so much, as it was thin data and with gradients I had to remove, especially the OIII ....having said that the halos don't particularly bother me and the overall impact of the piece was what I was after in this case...I should really revisit the area, with no or much less Moon and take more data....
Definitely gives Jason Pollock a run for his money.
I notice a great similarity to the Honeycomb Nebula
in the Large Magellanic Cloud,close to Supernova 1987A.
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Definitely gives Jason Pollock a run for his money.
I notice a great similarity to the Honeycomb Nebula
in the Large Magellanic Cloud,close to Supernova 1978A.
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Another pic with a wider field including SN1987A
Ha! yeah that's excellent Ron, recon you may well be right. Be great if we lived for 1,000,000 years or so just to see how these things get on...might get a bit bored though? ...unless we perceived a year like we currently perceive an few minutes...
At the risk of this dumb electrician being called an art snob,
Blue Poles is one of my favourite artworks.
I see something new every time I look at it.
At the risk of this dumb electrician being called an art snob,
Blue Poles is one of my favourite artworks.
I see something new every time I look at it.
Nice rendition Mike,
Steve
Ha ha cheers Steve and I agree with you, it was, and remains, the subject of controversy and divided opinion...probably why it is now worth so much
) so much, as it was thin data and with gradients I had to remove, especially the OIII 
