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Old January 15th 08, 11:51 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
John N. Gretchen III
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14x240 seconds
Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Celestron Advanced Series GT
Sbig ST2000XCM
processed with AstroArt and Photoshop

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Old January 16th 08, 12:04 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
Doug W.
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That's pretty John... this one galaxy I have never got a good shot of... It
is not for trying but it is a hard object to get the detail on.

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m...
14x240 seconds
Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Celestron Advanced Series GT
Sbig ST2000XCM
processed with AstroArt and Photoshop

--
John N. Gretchen III
N5JNG NCS304
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3



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Old January 16th 08, 08:42 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
John N. Gretchen III
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Thanks Doug!

Doug W. wrote:
That's pretty John... this one galaxy I have never got a good shot of... It
is not for trying but it is a hard object to get the detail on.


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Old January 19th 08, 06:28 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
Richard Crisp[_1_]
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nice data and a very interesting object

Like my previous posting to Rick about histograms, you too have some
histogram issues with the data

I took a peek at it in Photoshop and this is what I saw

As you can see on the histogram the blue channel is clipped on the left
(dark) side and the data is overall less in its use of the available dynamic
range. In short it is compressed into a smaller ADU range than the Red and
Green and is skewed to the left (dark) relative to the others.

Your data is good data but I think the image processing is limiting its
potential. If you can reprocess it while paying mind to the histograms I
believe you will have an even nicer image once complete.




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m...
14x240 seconds
Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Celestron Advanced Series GT
Sbig ST2000XCM
processed with AstroArt and Photoshop

--
John N. Gretchen III
N5JNG NCS304
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3





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Old January 20th 08, 05:26 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
John N. Gretchen III
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Default astro: M95 re-done

I was aware that the blues were awol and this is on my rainy day rework
list. I'm still trying to get a grip on processing images with this camera.

Richard Crisp wrote:
nice data and a very interesting object

Like my previous posting to Rick about histograms, you too have some
histogram issues with the data

I took a peek at it in Photoshop and this is what I saw

As you can see on the histogram the blue channel is clipped on the left
(dark) side and the data is overall less in its use of the available dynamic
range. In short it is compressed into a smaller ADU range than the Red and
Green and is skewed to the left (dark) relative to the others.

Your data is good data but I think the image processing is limiting its
potential. If you can reprocess it while paying mind to the histograms I
believe you will have an even nicer image once complete.


John N. Gretchen III
N5JNG NCS304
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3
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Old January 21st 08, 11:37 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
George Normandin[_1_]
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"Richard Crisp" wrote
...
....

Like my previous posting to Rick about histograms, you too have some
histogram issues with the data.......


Richard,

Could this be a artifact of converting to jpg and compression to get to
a decent file size?

George N


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Old January 20th 08, 03:01 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
DvandenH
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Good image John, i tried it too but not as good as this one i can even see
the vey faint outer regions..

Reg
Dirk


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m...
14x240 seconds
Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Celestron Advanced Series GT
Sbig ST2000XCM
processed with AstroArt and Photoshop

--
John N. Gretchen III
N5JNG NCS304
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3


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Old January 20th 08, 05:29 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
John N. Gretchen III
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Thank you Dirk!

DvandenH wrote:
Good image John, i tried it too but not as good as this one i can even
see the vey faint outer regions..

Reg
Dirk

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