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Originally Posted by Garyh
That`s a lovely rendition of this difficult area! Marcus.
More exposure would really help this as I know a lot of the background is faint stuff and would help preserve details..but with the weather as it is who knows how long that would be!
chers Gary
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Cheers Gary, glad you like it! Yep, more data will help - 5.7 hrs is not enough, but that's all the moon would allow after the clouds cleared!
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Originally Posted by Alchemy
Nice shot of a very under-rated piece of sky, so many nice objects in Orion area worth shooting, this is definitely one of them.
Would have liked to have shot this myself this season... It's not looking likely given the weather.
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Thanks a lot Clive! I reckon objects like this one are underrated because many don't realise the nuance of colour that's present. Images of this object often appear predominately blue, overlooking the pastel reds oranges and yellows that are present.
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Originally Posted by irwjager
Very nice shot Marcus and well processed too - love those colors!
IMHO there's no shame at all in trading some resolution for a better SNR where noise reduction would otherwise be too heavy, but that's just me  |
Thanks Ivo, and I generally agree. But I pick my FL to suit the framing I want and if I hit the jackpot with seeing it really pays off at F11.7 - the TOA is an absolute gem in that regard! If I need longer exposures to compensate, so be it.
Since the seeing was no better than 2-3 arcsecs on the night, I thought I might be able to get away with adding an hours worth of synthetic Lum (ie adding in desaturated RGB as Luminance). Being binned 2x2 I still needed to do some decon, but I did end up with better S/N. Not a massive difference but quite noticeable.
