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Markarian Mosaic

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Markarian Mosaic

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Description

I wanted to give the mosaic feature in SGP a try. I have always been fascinated by the galaxies in the Virgo cluster. This is 4 panels stacked, ABE, leveled, stretched, in Pixinsight and then merged in Photoshop with some curves adjustments.

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  • Markarian Mosaic, Astro Jim
    Original
  • Markarian Mosaic, Astro Jim
    B
  • Final
    Markarian Mosaic, Astro Jim
    C

B

Description: Did quite a bit more with it this time around including drizzling which increased the size to 160 megapixels. Rebalanced the color. Reduced the noise.

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C

Description: Fixed stars and some other details that were bugging me. Still not happy with it, but are we ever?

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Markarian Mosaic, Astro Jim