Whoa!! Full res rules!!! Yep, a bit noisy maybe but hat's off to you Greg!!! Nice work!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
... Now, who can show a full frame full res image with no background noise that preserves the smallest faintest details aaaaand that doesn't look artificially and unevenly smoothed?
Ahhh yes, your 6188 image was close, I'll give you that, but you look to have lost some resolution to me, plus you were imaging a pretty bright object too
Yes there was a slight problem with green. I think it was either or both of 2 things:
I noticed at one point the lens had dew on it and I hadn't put my little insulation blanket around the scope as I rarely get dewing at my dark site.
At a guess I'd say dew is most likely to show up in the green image as I have noticed clouds/light pollution show up worst in the green channel.
There were also some clouds that moved in from time to time and these were fast moving. It is quite possible some moved in on one of the green subs. I have noticed before that clouds interfering with a sub often show excessive green in the colour image.
It was a difficult night and I have had a bad run of weather at my dark site. It used to be Sydney was cloudy and my dark site would invariably be completely clear.
Nowadays the weather pattern has shifted and Sydney has been very clear and my dark site overcast!
Top image Greg. Not sure what to make of it specifically tho, bit WW for me ;-). The undistorted FOV is sure impressive. And the 18meg version is awesome, the res does it justice. You are going to have to be very carefull with processing posting that res tho.
Greg I think you have over revved in all gears. You have lost a lot of dynamic range. I suppose it all depends on what you want to show. Really faint nebulae are fine in the context of a narrow field. Wide field you have a real problem.For an 18MB image it is lacking depth as well as clarity. I think it is a poor version of what is really there.
I did a reprocess on this one including the full resolution image as there has been some discussion about noise and I got Noise Ninja (seems like a good program).
So I used Noise Ninja and it worked quite well but it does have side effects.
Same links.
Less noise and less odd colours which ultimately come from the wrong adapter spacing to the reducer which is quite unforgiving given its F3.64 speed.
