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Comment by Martin Cohen on February 15, 2012 at 4:18pm

Your work is getting better and better! Thirty years ago it was almost unthinkable that an amateur astronomer could come up with an image like this... amazing detail.

Comment by Dave Lane on February 15, 2012 at 7:35am

Thanks everyone it sort of drove me crazy to add some Ha to this.

Comment by Bernard Miller on February 6, 2012 at 5:21pm

Dave, this looks great. You really squeezed a lot of detail out of M82 considering the FOV and plate scale of this image. Nice job.

Comment by Philip A Cruden on February 2, 2012 at 9:09pm

Looks great Dave

Comment by Conor on February 1, 2012 at 11:11am

Holy crap - did you add more time to this or something? This is bloody amazing! Excellent details, man, jesus.

Star cores are a little washed out, I would have used a star mask (or better yet an atrous transform to remove the residual layer with a morphological dilation to just do the cores) to keep them nice and bright. This is a super shot though. Absolutely wall worthy. You're printing these out, right?

Comment by Dave Lane on January 29, 2012 at 1:30pm

Actually the thing I was happiest with was keeping star size down and star color up. I tend to end up with white stars all the time

Comment by Dave Lane on January 29, 2012 at 1:13pm

Trevor about 2.5 LRGB I added about 2 more useable hours of Ha to it, though it was slightly off register n caused a few halos n bad color in the stars. Took forever to tweak most of it out of there.

Comment by Marc Basti on January 29, 2012 at 11:17am

Nice job man. Sweet detail. Marc

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on January 29, 2012 at 11:14am

Wow Dave, that is stupid sick! Crazy detail in both objects. How much time total?

Comment by Franco Basti on January 29, 2012 at 10:04am

Wow...that is a really good image

Unfortunately I cannot frame both with my setup

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