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Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith, Sigga
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Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith

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Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith, Sigga
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Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith

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Description

Last week I had imaged this object:

Messier 45

I was pretty pleased with result, midweek Lloyd send me note saying he working on same object on his personal system @ DSW (FSQ-106, ML16000, 10Micron GM1000) and offered his files for me to process. Data files I normally work with 5-10 MB, so I go download 1GB of files and oh dear now what! So I try some experiments, some good some bad, get first image and think not bad, more experiments and get final image published here.

As I have simple software and modest skills for sure this seem fairly conclusive proof that good data and long integration makes a huge difference. I am sure at some point in the near future Lloyd will publish his version which will put my attempt to shame :-)

-Data Courtesy Deep Sky West

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  • Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith, Sigga
    Original
  • Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith, Sigga
    B
  • Final
    Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith, Sigga
    C

B

Description: With L and IFN RGB

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C

Description: Bit more aggressive processing.

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Messier45 - Data Courtesy of Deep Sky West/Lloyd Smith, Sigga