Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
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Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
A very hot day on Sunday, but I was out and observing by 6am before the seeing started to take its toll. These shots were taken with the 8" HaT at ~7m focal length, using the double stacked Daystar Quark and the PGR Chameleon 3 using 2x2 binning to give effective 6.9um pixels more suited to the focal length, and, also nice short 3ms exposure time along with (for my laptop!) a nice fast 120fps.
ar12663-hat-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12663-hat-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12662-hat-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12662-hat-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Hoping you've all been getting sunny skies!
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ar12663-hat-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12663-hat-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12662-hat-bw by Mark Townley, on Flickr
ar12662-hat-colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr
Hoping you've all been getting sunny skies!
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Very nice set of images with 8" aperture!
Hope you will have better seeing this season.
Valery
Hope you will have better seeing this season.
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Those are very slick and beautiful Mark!
I understand about doing a bit of noise reduction to smooth out noise in processing, but the difference in slickness between your images (and many other here too), and what I'm producing is huge. As one who has been experimenting a lot, I don't get it.
I understand about doing a bit of noise reduction to smooth out noise in processing, but the difference in slickness between your images (and many other here too), and what I'm producing is huge. As one who has been experimenting a lot, I don't get it.
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Oh my!!! these are even better!! heaven sent
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Very smooth and sharp Mark.
You will need to get a bigger chip to bin with :-)
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
These look great Mark .Hopefully some Sun here later in the week .Windy with squalls almost British weather here.
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Some good detail there Mark. How long do you record for?
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Great série Mark
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Cracking images, Mark. These came out really well.
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Hi Nick,nickatnight wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2017 12:03 am Those are very slick and beautiful Mark!
I understand about doing a bit of noise reduction to smooth out noise in processing, but the difference in slickness between your images (and many other here too), and what I'm producing is huge. As one who has been experimenting a lot, I don't get it.
Could you post a hi-definition image (Tiff) somehow, so that people can give it a go to see what can be pulled out of your data?
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Very very Nice Mark.bravo!!!
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Well done Mark!!!
More cloud and rain than sun here of late...basically May and June have been a write-off both astronomically and agronomically
Brian
More cloud and rain than sun here of late...basically May and June have been a write-off both astronomically and agronomically
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Re: Sunday Shots with the 8" Airylab HaT - 18th June
Thanks all for the comments! I record 1000 frames for these, stacked 100, this is recorded in about 9 seconds.
In terms of processing it is an iterative process; in a combination stretch, sharpen, smooth. Whenever noise starts to emerge when stretching or sharpening I apply a blur at a radius equivalent to the noise artifacts, then, the process is repeated but small steps more often rather than one big stretch then one phase of sharpen...
In terms of processing it is an iterative process; in a combination stretch, sharpen, smooth. Whenever noise starts to emerge when stretching or sharpening I apply a blur at a radius equivalent to the noise artifacts, then, the process is repeated but small steps more often rather than one big stretch then one phase of sharpen...
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