Some work in progress: NGC4631 and M101

[ChrisLX200]

These are stacks of the luminance frames (5x10min subs) of two targets I imaged last night. I'm about 1/2 way through collecting the LRGB for both targets. Taken with a TV NP127is refractor and Atik 490EX @ 1:1 binning. There was a near full moon which didn't help much. These images are simple calibrated stacks (bias, flats, darks) and levels adjusted, no other processing at all.

M101:

ngc4631:

ChrisH

[lensman57]

Lovely captures Chris, very clean. I am liking what I see with the 490, those little pixels do not seem to have suffered from lack of Dymnaic Range.

Regards,

A.G

[ChrisLX200]

Thanks AG, no pixels were hurt taking those images :-)  (none were saturated I mean!) 

I'm getting a bit frustrated now trying to process my image data, the results I get always seem to look worse than the raw FITs images   I'll keep struggling on until I get somewhere because I know there is a great image hidden in there. Below is a crop of the full Lum image after adding more data last night, this is a still a simple stack with nothing more than levels adjusted, no work being done to bring out detail or reduce noise.

ChrisH

[sologuitarist61]

Beautiful detailed images Chris - well done!