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IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray
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IC434 - Crazy Horse

Revision title: Centre-stage

IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray
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IC434 - Crazy Horse

Revision title: Centre-stage

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Description

Pleased to have an opportunity to capture some photons on Saturday night. Periods of excellent seeing, dominated by brilliant Venus, then Jupiter and ruddy Mars - a glorious sight. It took a while to dial in my fast Samyang lens; a further 0.1mm spacer is needed to improve the stars. With cloud forecast from midnight, I decided on a mono Ha wide field of the dark horse silhouetted by the bright emissions of IC434. In this orientation, it looks like an outdoor concert, the horse centre stage, strutting it's stuff. Mouseover for a cropped and sharpened version. Rev B shows the stage with the lights turned up.

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  • IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray
    Original
  • IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray
    B
  • IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray
    C
  • Final
    IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray
    D

B

Title: Stretched

Description: Extra stretch turns up the lights

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C

Title: Centre-stage

Description: Deconvolution in GraXpert, and a little wavelet sharpening

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D

Title: Centre-stage

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IC434 - Crazy Horse, Tom Gray