Leo Triplet from Wiruna (2010)

[atalas]

Very nice Rob....just need to neutralize the background.

[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by lesbehrens

wow. very nice image. you do some good work.

Thanks for that Les. Long time no see - may be a chance to see what you're up to at Astrofest perhaps?

Originally Posted by atalas

Very nice Rob....just need to neutralize the background.

Must confess I obsessed more in the galaxies than the background Rich - will have to check out the histogram a bit more. This one has seen lashings of Pixinsights dynamic background correction to tame the poorly fitting flats and resulting ringing/vignetting.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Rob. You just managed to squeeze the three into the frame.
I bet it took you some effort to get the framing just right. Good detail and I love the colours in the galaxies. Is it worth selectively sharpening the dust lane in the vertical galaxy a bit more?

[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very nice Rob. You just managed to squeeze the three into the frame.
I bet it took you some effort to get the framing just right. Good detail and I love the colours in the galaxies. Is it worth selectively sharpening the dust lane in the vertical galaxy a bit more?

Thanks for that Doug. Yes, I did try deconvolutions and sharpening but couldn't add too much more to the detail in 3628 - we're not talking Starfire or RC here, although the Newt keeps me very happy for the limitations of my imaging budget. I suspect I'm starting to pick up a bit of bias from the Pininsight guys too in that if you can't mathematically select or apply a function you shouldn't just "paint" it in - gets controversial though and I'm certainly not adverse to doing things in PS I can't easily do in PI! I s'pose in the end I strived for processing subtlety as much as possible within the bounds of the data.