Reprocessed NGC7000

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Took some frames last December but my processing skills were even poorer than they are now. Having no source of fresh data to mess about with I had another go and turned it into this.

I even had a go at deconvolution.

Captain Chaos

[GordonCopestake]

Great image CC, nice colour! I thought deconvolution was only for fork mounted stuff?

[Black Shuck]

Worth waiting for - very nice!! 8)

Bill£

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Gordon, I think you are thinking of derotation?

Deconvolution is a fancy kind of sharpening where the software analyses the spread of the light from each point source and recreates the point. This gets rid of the airy disc and diffraction rings that all optics add to an image and gets back to a point of light on the image. It helps to have a reasonable image to start with and it rarely works well for me (I don't think the two are unconnected ) but when it works its great.

Captain Chaos

[GordonCopestake]

Ahhhhhhhh right you are, derotation is what i'm thinking of. Convoluted is just too vauge a term in astronomy though!! MOST things are convoluted (at least in my mind hehe)

[CELESCOPE]

Ah yes , i like that CC , very bold and well detailed , excellent process mate , like it

Rog

[barkis]

If you don't stop trashing yourself CC, you will begin to believe it and we are going to have a helluva job to convince you otherwise.

Most of what you place on this site is damn good stuff, but if you keep telling us it isn't, less adept imagers are going to be influenced, be put off, and give up. So stop being a naughty boy. So there.

Ron.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thanks Ron, it looked like this last time I played with it.

Most of the difference between any two images is in the processing, as you can see. Same data for these two.

I suppose the message to anybody starting out is that your images are a lot better than you think they are until you can get round to processing them somewhere near well enough that the data shows through. All manner of odd looking raw stuff turns into a postable image as if by magic.

Captain Chaos