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Submitted: May 27, 2012
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Rho Ophiuchus Projec - WIP IIby *octane2

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Weather and Sky

Grabbed the last two panels.

Reduction in Maxim DL and then mosaiced in PixInsight using the GradientsMergeMosaic module.

There has been no DynamicBackgroundExtraction or any other noise reduction other than a very, very quick histogram stretch (copied STF to HistogramTransformation) and a quick levels/curves iteration in Photoshop. I will need to play around a bit more to smooth it out, but, it is very, very promising thus far.

This is the first imaging I've done in six months. I am so glad that I still have the skills! Except for one newbie mistake -- I was wondering why my guidestar calibration kept failing on the STL-11000M in Maxim DL. Turns out I had forgot to plug the serial autoguider cable in. Oops! Once that was plugged in, it was smooth sailing.

9 hours in luminance and counting. I have 1 hour of red for panel 1 completed.

SBIG STL-11000M, Takahashi FSQ-106N 530mm at f/5
bin 1x1 -30 degrees

Cheers for looking.

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*trixi-b May 28, 2012 Student Interface Designer

I can't really critique, because I have no idea about this technology, but this is obviously a stunning picture.
Can I use it as a wallpaper?

~RayM0506 May 28, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

OMG! This is fantastic. It is what I strive to be able to do! Fantastic work.

~da-phil May 28, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

once again a stunning capture my friend

~Dunadan-from-Bag-End May 28, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Nice, I can't wait for final result. I've seen a couple of Rho Ophiuchi photos and they were... hm, strange. Very colourful, almost too much...

*CapturingTheNight May 27, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Wow! This looks sensational so far H.

Can't wait to see it once you have all the colour data. Can we say 2013 Malin Awards.......

!Kalavere May 27, 2012

It's no wonder you get such gorgeous images from the SBIG STL-11000M It's got pixels 9µm in size, very nice indeed.

~psychsg May 27, 2012

as much as i love these kinds of pictures in color this is really nice in black and white

*octane2 May 27, 2012 Professional Photographer

psychsg,

Cheers!

Yeah, as much as I love the black and white in this image, I'm pining to complete the colour data set.

I should have it in the next month or two.

Thanks for looking!

Regards,
H

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