Back in business - NGC 6744

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Wonderful image! Nice detail!

Tom

[Garyh]

Another beauty Marcus! Colors quiet saturated but I like galaxy images like that!
cheers Gary

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

Wonderful image! Nice detail!

Tom

Thanks Tom!

Originally Posted by Garyh

Another beauty Marcus! Colors quiet saturated but I like galaxy images like that!
cheers Gary

Cheers Gary, glad you liked it! Yes, it's saturated, but no more so than many other renditions I've seen IMO - look at Martin Pugh's version for example.

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Finally, after 6 weeks, I got my mount back from Japan just in time to snap this quick 10.5hr exposure of NGC 6744 . I was dogged by high cloud during the red and blue subs and seeing was a pretty average 3-4 arcsecs the whole time - thank goodness for decon! The detail's not bad but I'd kill for a few more nights of 1.5 arcsec seeing!

So, following on from Mike's great rendition, here is my somewhat narrower view. As usual, I've cropped for effect to a 43x32 arcmin FOV.

Small:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/127465806/large

Large:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/127465806/original

Hope you like it!

Cheers, Marcus

Great shot Marcus! I like it!

Marco

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by marco

Great shot Marcus! I like it!

Marco

Thanks Marco!

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Not a repro, just some additional processing to address some minor issues. Mainly a reduction in the blue channel bleeding around stars (because of the high clouds and relatively poor seeing when shooting the blue channel) and a couple other subtle improvements to the galaxy itself. Full res here.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Awww com'on Marcus who you trin ta kid, that's a repro fair and square, aaah you have the bug... the addiction, it's contageous you know

Very nice job

Mike

[Garyh]

ohh yeah, even better Marcus! I love those colors ex into the core!
really nice detail considering cloud and not too good seeing!

[gregbradley]

Brilliant! That's a super image Marcus.

Greg.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Awww com'on Marcus who you trin ta kid, that's a repro fair and square, aaah you have the bug... the addiction, it's contageous you know

Very nice job

Mike

Nah, but I do admit to being a processaholic. Cheers Mike

Originally Posted by Garyh

ohh yeah, even better Marcus! I love those colors ex into the core!
really nice detail considering cloud and not too good seeing!

Thanks Gary - I'm very happy with it now. It's surprising just how important the final tweaking is to the sucess of an image.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Brilliant! That's a super image Marcus.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. It pays to take time off from an image too - going back with a fresh pair of eyes helps highlight deficiencies.

[RB (Andrew)]

What a beautiful shot Marcus.
Love looking straight into the centre of the galaxy in your full res version on my Dell 2408.

Quite hypnotic !