M51 from last night
May 22, 2020 13:23:29 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Europa wrote:
It was a pretty big improvement in my imaging(noise) when I started to dither.
Hi Europa
Yep. I'll force some dithering in the next set of images I take (I think I saw some setting in PHD to help with that). In the mean time I'm going to try using noise removal in the wavelet layers with the Multiscale Linear transform function in Pixinsight. Always more to learn about and experiment with.
May 22, 2020 13:40:36 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
WFG286 wrote:
Beautiful! Great job!!
Thanks for checking out the photo.
Interestingly one of the subs had a meteor go through it.
See included image of sub before any processing.
May 22, 2020 16:08:22 #
May 22, 2020 19:25:05 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
I found that using the Multiscale median transform with 5 layers was very useful in removing the color and luminance noise. The new version has much greater detail in the center of the galaxy and in its companion NGC 5195 at the end of the spiral arm and much less color bloching.
May 22, 2020 22:43:12 #
May 23, 2020 01:08:01 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
alberio wrote:
Definitely improved if that was possible.
Yep the details came out much better when zoomed in. I feel that the image may be a bit overdone and I might try to back down the saturation a bit.
May 25, 2020 22:09:00 #
May 26, 2020 18:30:27 #
Ballard wrote:
Yep the details came out much better when zoomed in. I feel that the image may be a bit overdone and I might try to back down the saturation a bit.
It's a wonderful image!
But I would agree it may be a bit over-done.
However, my display might be giving it that appearance, too.
So I say, Well done!
Now I have a question, if I may....
Is the "N" for Norton Antivirus?
And does it keep the Covid19 Virus away?
Well... I guess that is 2 questions....
Monster light bucket!
I dozed off at the mount last night...
May 26, 2020 18:56:02 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
SonnyE wrote:
It's a wonderful image! br But I would agree it ma... (show quote)
It's not your display, the image is over cooked. I'll be redoing in soon.
In regard to your question (I saw this picture of a home made face mask the other day)
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