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12-04-2007, 06:11 PM
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The Hat. M104 Sombrero
Hi Guys,
Took this Tuesday night of M104 Sombrero. 16 x 3 mins at ISO 400 darks/flats subtracted. once again i use steve's colour balancing technique and the final result below
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12-04-2007, 06:18 PM
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Very nice Eric!
12-04-2007, 06:18 PM
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Those images are so crisp, the central section (is it called a dust lane?), looks so distinct. Great shot
12-04-2007, 07:15 PM
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Had a play with it Ezy, hope you dontr mind...would love to play with the biggies... I think that bought out some detail across the dustcloud disc...
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12-04-2007, 08:35 PM
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Nice one Eric, a favorite of mine M104. You have picked up quite a few of its globs as well, well done.
12-04-2007, 11:11 PM
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I motion that too. Nice pics Eric. Something about The Sombrero, its very mystical to me!
12-04-2007, 11:41 PM
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cheers guys thanks. pm me your email address shawn and i'll send you the bigger version. what did you do to it? i can now see a second dust lane above the main. nicely done.
13-04-2007, 12:30 AM
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Hi Eric, very nice images.
13-04-2007, 06:21 AM
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cheers guys thanks. pm me your email address shawn and i'll send you the bigger version. what did you do to it? i can now see a second dust lane above the main. nicely done.
Non adaptive Van Cittern Filter on a 3x3 pixel scale, 20 iterations, Gaussian piont spread...the a blur to flatten the Black, masked around the galaxy, then a histo shift in luminance to make the sky darker...Yeah Ezy I would love to play with a hugher resolution, If you want to just crop to 104 to keep the size down,,,
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14-04-2007, 04:42 PM
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thanks ric. just trying different methods of processing and playing around
shawn, check your email
14-04-2007, 04:44 PM
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Looks very nice!!
It's my favorite messier object
May I ask what focal length that was taken at?
14-04-2007, 05:12 PM
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Great shot Eric!!!!!!!!!
Wanna swap cameras?
15-04-2007, 04:55 AM
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Hi Ingo, it was taken at F4.7 . thanks ken. i'll past on the swap
15-04-2007, 06:50 AM
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Hi Ingo, it was taken at F4.7 . thanks ken. i'll past on the swap
I think that's the aperture
Focal length would be like 1100mm?
15-04-2007, 08:27 AM
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thanks ric. just trying different methods of processing and playing around
shawn, check your email
No mail, in fact no mail or weekend, not even spam...
15-04-2007, 01:38 PM
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Very nice pic
16-04-2007, 01:27 AM
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big slap sorry 1200mm . just resent it shawn. should be ok now. thanks Nick
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shawn, check your email 
Great shot Eric!!!!!!!!!
