Mike B.
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I had some of the nicest skies this past weekend. Excellent transparency and reasonably good seeing. After the moon set, I imaged several DSO's. One was M1, the Crab Nebula:
The Crab Nebula. 42x180 sec @ ISO 1600. Meade SN-8 at F/4, MPCC, IDAS-LPS, Hutech Canon 350XT, Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD
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weatherandsky
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WOW this is amazing. I can't believe the detail that you captured.
I imaged this last night but haven't processed yet. If it turns out even quarter as good I'd be so happy.
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WadeVC
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Very nice indeed!
Compaired to the rather dull, grey blob that I see when I observe The Crab, it is nice to see what it looks like in all its glory.
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novbabies
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 That's an awesome image, it is so thick I felt like I was getting radiation burns just looking at it  !!
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iceman
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Wow, that's really special. Nice work!
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Shadowalker
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Exceptional, Mike. This surpasses last year's (in which you compared it to a HST M1).
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Very nice Mike! I agree awesome detail.
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Mike B.
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Thanks, everyone! 
Tom, you might be right. I had drizzled the subs for that previous image, so it came out twice the size, which I liked. I might do the same for this one and see how it comes out.
In the meantime, I tried R/L deconvolution on it and pushed it harder with wavelets and sharpening. I blended that into the original and came out with this enhancement:
What ya'll think? Better or worse?
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Dubboy
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Awesome image, Mike. Thanks for sharing. The detail is amazing!!
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Mike B.
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Awesome image, Mike. Thanks for sharing. The detail is amazing!!
Thank you, Don. Glad you and everyone else seemed to like it.
Well, I did do the drizzle processing route. It did not come out too bad, I think. I used all 42 subs and let IRIS scale it 2x during the process. Here is an 800x600 crop at 100% scaling:
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wrather1
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Great shot - lots of detail.
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soreneck
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Holy cow! That's awesome.
Good thing there's no swearing allowed on CN, 'cause when I saw your image I said something that caused looks from my co-workers. 
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HendyPhoto
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Another unbelievable shot!! NICE job!
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