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M87 with plasma jet, Mark L Mitchell
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M87 with plasma jet

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M87 with plasma jet

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I saw an attempt at an HDR image of M87 by Michael Feigenbaum and decided to try it with an HDR set of luminance frames and RGB for star colors, but, as many others have noted, the plasma jet was only prominent in the 10 and 30 second luminance frames. This is about 2 hours of RGB shot in March and 59, 10 second luminance frames shot last night. The 10 second master is in a luminance layer in soft light mode at 43% opacity. Now I wonder if I could shoot it in RGB only with many 10 second duration frames and get more blue in the jet - my guess is not at this scale.

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M87 with plasma jet, Mark L Mitchell