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Markarian's Chain RGB (OSC), andrea tasselli
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Markarian's Chain RGB (OSC)

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Wide field shots of galaxies groups are one of my favourite although is probably fair to say I envisioned a bit more toward image scale than the present one. I'm not totally dissatified nor I am fully satisfied with how it turned out. Sure, shoting south with a 300mm lens is frought with dangers in the guise of a host of horrible gradients (which I did my damned best to hide in the shadows) and I wasn't that keen on keeping the focus just right which is tricky (to say the least) in a f/2.8 lens. Still, I haven't got anything better to show for my efforts and the only sure-fire cure to the chroma noise still apparent is more shoting time and that window of opportunity is as good as gone this year.

1st revision: I didn't push the stretching that far and that allows for softer stars (which, to be honest, aren't great to start with) thus avoiding using NR at all, which I much prefer.

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Markarian's Chain RGB (OSC), andrea tasselli