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Posts Made By: Greg Bradley

June 8, 2007 02:01 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

IC 2944(The Running Chicken Neb)

Posted By Greg Bradley
Nice work Louie.

Where did you take that one?

Greg.

June 12, 2007 01:20 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M20&M21

Posted By Greg Bradley
Nice one Louie.

Greg.

June 12, 2007 11:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 4725

Posted By Greg Bradley
Very nice Jim.

Greg.

June 12, 2007 12:05 PM Forum: Takahashi

New FSQ-First Impressions

Posted By Greg Bradley
That's very exciting Hans.

I am very interested to know how it performs. I have an FSQ-106N and I consider it one of the best scopes ever made. So if they managed to improve on that it will be an unbelievable scope!

Greg.

June 12, 2007 10:53 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M81 First Light Image

Posted By Greg Bradley
Wow, wonderful image! The next version of Images Plus is going to have a background noise smoothing feature which should be very handy.

Photoshop CS2 has a noise reduction feature which is good also. You can use the blurring tool to rub specific areas to reduce noise or lasso an area, feather it then use a Gaussian blur (1 pixel) to smooth background noise. Another approach is using levels and shifting the black point on the histogram to the start of the bell curve as that area to the left of the histogram is the noise in the dim areas.

Greg.

June 17, 2007 02:37 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 6188

Posted By Greg Bradley
Nice one Louie!

I nearly imaged that myself the other night but managed to trip myself up by making a mistake setting up my gear.

Greg.

June 17, 2007 02:45 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC7023 and regional dust

Posted By Greg Bradley
That's got to be one of the best images I have seen for some time.

You seem to have your ASA 12 under control. Were there any problems getting it set up?

Greg.

June 17, 2007 03:32 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Viel Nebula in Narrowband

Posted By Greg Bradley
Nice image Wayne.

Greg.

June 18, 2007 11:00 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

First autoguided images - M13 and M51

Posted By Greg Bradley
Very nice, congratulations! It is a big breakthrough to conquer autoguiding. Yeah the 2 primary things with autoguiding (given a good mount the actual basic thing) are good balance (it can vary on some scope setups at different angles too) and drift aligned polar alignment. So, brush up on drift alignment as it is a basic skill needed for autoguiding.


Greg.

June 18, 2007 11:05 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M8 and M20 - Trifid and Lagoon

Posted By Greg Bradley
Nice one Joe.

Greg.

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