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M31 -- brighter

Started by tvdavis, 08/13/2007 06:44PM
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Posted 08/13/2007 06:44PM Opening Post
Thomas V Davis
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Sorry for the re-post, but I received some comments that my recent M31 was a little too dark. I reprocessed to lighten it without washing out the details. Please let me know if it looks better on your monitor. The original image has been removed and replaced with this new one.

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00000d.htm

Thanks again for all of your comments and criticisms.

Tom

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Posted 08/13/2007 07:01PM #1
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Tom,

Beautiful!! M31 is so well defined, and M110 shows dust near it's core as well.

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Posted 08/13/2007 07:08PM #2
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I can't say that I thought the previous image looked dark. Both are excellent.
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Looks amazing on my Thinkpad! Great image.
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Looks amazing on my Thinkpad! Great image.
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Posted 08/13/2007 08:41PM #5
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Hi Tom,
I don't remember the first one looking too dark on my moniter,I do like this one more though.I think it's the color/saturation smile

Jason
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Posted 08/14/2007 12:58PM #6
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Tom,

The first version did look a bit dark - kinda like the results I would get if I DDP'd my color data a bit too aggressively. The dark lanes and HII regions really pop out in this second version. Nice job on both versions, actually!

Eric
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