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Originally Posted by Nicola
Incredible detail and excellent color balancing, gives a sort of 3d effect..
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Grazie Nicola
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Originally Posted by pgc hunter
brilliant shot. The rude finger sticks out like a sore rude finger!
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Cheers Sab, this is from this data set too:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...05167/original
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Very interesting. Where do I start?
First, the hi res data is sharper than some Ha data I have taken with the RC. Mind you I could sharpen it a lot more yet but I doubt that my RC Ha data would equal this data.
Second, in my viewing of this object at high mag I can see the lobes and the jets. However the overwhelming colour of this material is orange. Do you think it ought to be this colour in your image? I would have thought so.
Third, this I reckon would be one of the best amateur images of this region that I have seen. Peter Wards is certainly with it but if one looks at the relative apertures of each OTA it certainly speaks volumes for the particular telescope. You might just have one of those extra freaky telescopes in your possession Mike. I have never seen sharper images from an AP than yours. It makes my Tak look positively poor (yes it is only a 4" and no comparison but Tak scopes are no slouch).
The reach of your scope is it seems limitless. Well done.
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Hi Paul
Thanks for the compliments
...The Starfire...yes she is a beauty indeed and as I have said many times before I am very lucky to have this beautiful telescope and I have never taken her for granted
. Looking through her visually (haven't done this for 4 years now
) she was amazing, when the Red spot junior was around on Jupiter a few years ago it was plainly visible in the Starfire and I have seen 6 stars in the trap at 75X each with a single broken diffraction ring and split 0.75" with her but it looked like she could go a little better even
Re the Homunculus, a little reading suggests you may be right... although as I am sure you are aware the colours obvious to the eye rarely match those seen in an image, take the inner areas of M42 as a good example. Besides, I didn't want Eta to look too out of place in the image, the fact that the brightness has to be turned down so much to see the hourglass already imparts a bit of an unnatural look - the treatment of this little feature is harder to manage than the Trap, it is hard to reveal the detail in the hourglass and have the whole image remain natural and believable, that's for sure.
Cheers Paulie
Mike
- been working on this data now on and off for coming up to 3 years so it's everything I have in my processing arsenal thrown at it...hmm?..3 years..?..that's gotta be some sort of processing record? ...aaand a sad endictment on my sanity 
... so you can breath a sigh of relief 
