My First go at the M51. Turned out OK

[acharris77]

Hi all, thought I would share an image of the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy. Imaged through my 130p DS on a Alt-Az Syncscan (till I get my EQ5 next week)

I know the conditions weren't great and I still need to get my LP filter, but I have had great detail trying to pull any detail out of the original stacked in DSS and edited in PS. My attempt is attach, but I am not very happy and I don't know if it is my processing technique or too much LP to edit out. Any here my cropped image.

Forgot to add that this is 31 x 25 Sec subs. I have got a 10 x 30 sec stacked image here, but I am really struggling to pull any detail out of that image.

Thanks for looking.

[Moon-Watcher]

Thats wierd.  My post didn't post.

What I said was:  nice pic.  I look forward to doing that someday...

Cheers,

Mark

[wxsatuser]

Thats not to bad for such short exposures.

You will do ok when you bump up the exposure length.