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I like the contents of the image but in my opinion the processing is way overdone. I think much more detail in a softer way can be shown. But that's a personal opinion.

Ann: thanks for the nice comment. Now cross my fingers that maybe one of these images one day will be an apod...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5443/7094322631_b93e615b2d_z.jpg This image was processed before by the Hubble team but in a totally different way. In their image the hubble palette was used, using 3 images. For this image 6 different bands were used: hst_06227_02_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci N2: used as yello...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5443/7094322631_b93e615b2d_z.jpg This image was processed before by the Hubble team but in a totally different way. In their image the hubble palette was used, using 3 images. For this image 6 different bands were used: hst_06227_02_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci N2: used as yello...

The heart of M94 seen by hubble http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6935519134_5071e2f30e_z.jpg Full resolution processing: André van der Hoeven Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space...

Hi Geckzilla, You're really making great progress. I see improvements with every image. Nice to see that. I also have processed some more galaxies I would like to share... I think this is a great topic and hope that much more people will tag along during the competition! http://farm6.staticflickr.co...

Looks good!

Luckily we all look in a different way Else the results would be boring and all the same...

I didn't keep the file, so I don't have the larger version here now. I only used the same data as Geckzilla did before. No ACS data was used here (it doesn't exist for this galaxy). The trick is in using a proper ddp to stretch the image to its max.

Hi Geckzilla,

I also took NGC 3185 to see what's in the image. I think you will be able to get more out of it. What software do you use for processing? Maybe I can give you some help... Here is what I got out of it.... (just a quick and dirty approach )

Go look for the ACS data and use the WFPC2 as color info. There is some great images in the ACS database, and they are much less noisy. Or look for narrowband imagery, they are also less noisy.....

After the nice remarks of Ann (thanks for that) to my previous post I update my M77 picture with much better colors I think. Here it is. Datasets used (a lot :) ): hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f336w_wf hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f502n_wf hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f547m_wf hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f658n_wf hst_05754_01_wfpc2_f791w...

Well, this was my hardest job until now. Combining the different datasets to get equal colors was really hard. M77 was not fully covered by one dataset, so I had to combine channels of the WFPC2 with different wavelengths and tune the colors to get them to fit. But the result is in my opinion quite ...

Well, this was my hardest job until now. Combining the different datasets to get equal colors was really hard. M77 was not fully covered by one dataset, so I had to combine channels of the WFPC2 with different wavelengths and tune the colors to get them to fit. But the result is in my opinion quite ...

Here is some more hubble imagery not processed this way before: NGC 3314 Two overlapping galaxies Full resolution: http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/index.php?showimage=183 Copyright: Hubble Legacy team/NASA/ESA processing: André van der Hoeven http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/thumbnails/thumb_...

Here is some more hubble imagery not processed this way before: NGC 3314 Two overlapping galaxies Full resolution: http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/index.php?showimage=183 Copyright: Hubble Legacy team/NASA/ESA processing: André van der Hoeven http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/thumbnails/thumb_...

Browsing through the hubble legacy archive I found this beautiful area that was imaged in 2006. I didn't find any nice hubble palette image of this area, only an image showing the area in bicolor, with less detail. So I decided to make it myself :) NGC 6357 Nebula HST imagery http://www.astro-photo....

Browsing through the hubble legacy archive I found this beautiful area that was imaged in 2006. I didn't find any nice hubble palette image of this area, only an image showing the area in bicolor, with less detail. So I decided to make it myself :) NGC 6357 Nebula HST imagery http://www.astro-photo....

Hubble image of NGC3521 core http://www.astro-photo.nl/ Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive/ESA/NASA processing: André van der Hoeven http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/thumbnails/thumb_20120330225214_ngc3521_hubble_processed_andre.jpg Full resolution: http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/images/20120...

Hubble image of NGC3521 core http://www.astro-photo.nl/ Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive/ESA/NASA processing: André van der Hoeven http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/thumbnails/thumb_20120330225214_ngc3521_hubble_processed_andre.jpg Full resolution: http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/images/20120...

________________________________________________________________________________________ <- Previous submissions ________________________________________________________________________________________ Last weekend I had a starparty in one of the darkest parts of the Netherlands and there I imaged ...

After some reprocessing my moon mosaic got to its final result. It consists of 107 images and is 18mp large. I think it's one of the largest and most detailed moon images made by a single observer using a series produced (c11) telescope. The image can be found here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/705...

I know moon images are not so common as an apod image but I would like to submit this mosaic that was made yesterday evening using my C11 telescope. It consist of 107 images put together covering the full moon disk. Details up to about 1 km can be seen on the image.... The full size image (18 megapi...

________________________________________________________________________________________ <- Previous submissions _______________________________________________________________________________________ I postprocessed the moon image of before and took the nicest part of it out of it to compare it wi...

Here is a moon mosaic made two days ago from my backyard. Excellent seeing and cold temperatures resulted in a sharpness I never obtained before. The full resolution (really look at this :) ) is here .... The image below is just a part of the large image... http://www.astro-photo.nl/photoblog/thumbn...