Here's 4 different, even though they're the same object, views of the Tarantula Nebula that I got from DSW-Chile. I posted the full sized version of this several weeks ago. Since then I did a remake and then, just for fun, I started cropping it at different amounts. I didn't do any star reduction or noise reduction on this and all the crops are just crops of the original (#1)....I just wanted to see how the data would stand up to various levels of "zooming in". #1 is the full size image, #2 is about a 40% crop to frame the Nebula, #3 is about another 40% crop to just show the nebula, and finally #4 is about a 50% crop of just the central clusters at the center of the nebula. IMHO, I think it stood up pretty well!
This is just an example of what you can get with "remote imaging". Granted, it's 40+ hours of TOT (HSOLRGB) taken under pristine skies with TOA-150/FLI ML16200 on the most costly service I subscribe to but you can get really good results with other services.
Hope ya like em!
Tom
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