That's a stunner Peter. Your best image to date and a real winner. Well done on working out a processing routine to tame the light pollution gradients.
I want to thank everybody together for the generous and kind comments!
Finally I think I've found a technique to deal with my extreme gradients right at the beginning of processing. Up until now I could only partially fix the issue and it would plague me right until the end. That plus collecting a ton of data has made a really big difference.
Yes, a ton of data indeed ...for a light polluted site, it came together quite nicely Peter
..you still cursing me?
Mike
Nope!!!! Whilst it is 42 hours of light I did it in about 23 hrs! So, good stuff when everything decides to play nice together!
Peter
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
The detail in the main galaxy is very good and the colouring seems quite natural to me.
The data collection has paid off, always good to gather lots of data.
A minor point. You should crop the image as there is a registration bar down the left side of the image.
Oh, thanks a lot for that Paul. I went back and looked in photoshop. It's there no doubt but much fainter than the jpg image I uploaded to Pbase. I think the compression must bring it out. Anyway, good advice noted! Thanks.
Nope!!!! Whilst it is 42 hours of light I did it in about 23 hrs! So, good stuff when everything decides to play nice together!
Peter
Phew, good to hear ...just saw it over at Starship Asterisk too, looks good
Hopefully I will have a dual system operating by years end but not specifically planning to have the two systems imaging at the same time ..more just to provide me with two options - wide or narrow depending on the target I wish to hammer
Phew, good to hear ...just saw it over at Starship Asterisk too, looks good
Hopefully I will have a dual system operating by years end but not specifically planning to have the two systems imaging at the same time ..more just to provide me with two options - wide or narrow depending on the target I wish to hammer
Mike
That's a nice plan Mike. The biggest isssue that I so far can't solve is that of differential flex between the 2 scopes. I can pretty much go 5 min and hardly see an issue. But, longer becomes problematic. I'm now experimenting with an AO on scope #2 while guiding through scope 1. The idea is that the AO should remove any DF. But, so far I can't find a working method and what was already complicated is now hopelessly complicated. And this is with two refractors. I think mirrored scopes would be raher hopeless unless the AO idea could be implemented. Good luck with your setup!
...just saw it over at Starship Asterisk too, looks good 
..more just to provide me with two options - wide or narrow depending on the target I wish to hammer 
