Hi folks -- Some of our astrophotographers have been keeping busy under all
these clouds by reprocessing older images using advances in imaging
software. Phil writes that he "recently reprocessed [his] large mosaic of
the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster using Blur XT, among other processes.

"The benefits were reducing the size of the stars to make the galaxies
"pop" better
and to reveal more color in these very distant, faint objects.

"The improvement also created an optical illusion. It made the galaxies
seem to be in the foreground, with the star field behind them, In fact, the
stars are all in the Milky Way and the galaxies are 50 million light years
beyond."

Phil also sent along a chart showing which galaxy is which. I include this
chart below so you can consult it while you check out the galaxies, which
are here https://gaac.us/gallery-2/phil2/#!prettyPhoto[phil2]/114/.

[image: Virgo Galaxy key.jpg]

Phil" Nice use of BlurX, great image.

John Hobbs
hobbs_john@verizon.net

 On Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 04:17:21 PM EDT, Michael Deneen via Photo <photo@lists.gaac.us> wrote:  

Hi folks -- Some of our astrophotographers have been keeping busy under all these clouds by reprocessing older images using advances in imaging software. Phil writes that he "recently reprocessed [his] large mosaic of the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster using Blur XT, among other processes.

"The benefits were reducing the size of the stars to make the galaxies "pop" better
and to reveal more color in these very distant, faint objects.

"The improvement also created an optical illusion. It made the galaxies seem to be in the foreground, with the star field behind them, In fact, the stars are all in the Milky Way and the galaxies are 50 million light years beyond."

Phil also sent along a chart showing which galaxy is which. I include this chart below so you can consult it while you check out the galaxies, which are here.

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