Saturday 5 July 2008

Final attempt at the Swan

I had another go at processing the Cygnus widefield. After finding a way of reviewing all the taken frames that is. I found that only the first 17 were clear of clouds, so that explains some of the oddities I was seeing. So after restacking this 17, doing some processing, LP removal, Gradient removal, noise reduction etc, I finally ended up with :

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I appear to have lost some colour, but I'm happy with the result. It looks a lot better now.

I also found that in one of the frames I had an intruder, which I hadn't realised. I processed this single frame and this is what came out :

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The Satellite track is, I believe, Lacrosse 2.

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