M81 from last night.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Got out and set up ready to have a go at NGC1977 the running man, but he hadn't run round from behind the tree yet, so I went North and aimed at M81. This is one of those easy to image and hard to process ones, where the centre is a white blob before the arms show up, so I'm pleased that I managed this.

Atik 16HR + CLS filter in a 200mm f/5 Newt. on a HEQ5 mount guided by a Toucam stuck up a 500mm f/8 camera lens.

Captured in Artemis Capture, guided by K3CCD, stacked and DDPed in Maxim, tweaked and shrunk in Photoshop CS2.

8 subs at 60 seconds unbinned.

Clouds stopped play.

Click to biggerise.

(Now I need to find a way to stop the JPEGing from posterising these things)

Captain Chaos

[Andrew]

Really very nice structure in there. Wish it looked like that through the eyepiece

[GordonCopestake]

Great image CC!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Really very nice structure in there. Wish it looked like that through the eyepiece

I wish I could see it at all through the eyepiece.

Thanks Gordon.

Captain Chaos

[GordonCopestake]

I look forward to seeing your images in S@N and "Astronomy Now" soon hehe

[SteelRat]

Nice stuff there CC 8)

[anthony]

Hi CC,

I love that. Really good. Detail all over the place. I think this one is difficult due to the very faint outer stuff versus the bright bright core.

And getting all that detail out of only 8x1min subs unbinned!

Excellent stuff.

Anthony

[CELESCOPE]

yes very well done on that one CC always a difficult one is that , but you have some fine detail in there, bet ypu are pleased with the Atik now

Rog

[Rob]

Very nice CC

Rob

[geppetto]

Lovely subtle details showing in that one CC

Well done mate

[daz]

Wow CC!!

Nice capture!!

[barkis]

That is Mucho Cushtie too C.C.

All these high class images flooding in, are going to drive me back to the pub and the dominoes.

[Ant]

Stunning CC, just Stunning!

I love the faint detail in the arms - really really nice.

Ant

[qcdougn]

HI CC,

Very nice image...I've not been able to image for a few months since I've moved. But, I've peeked at the forum from time to time and have noticed a great improvement in your pics and processing skills... Ole Rog, had better watch out. Lol.

Good job mate...I Hope to rejoin the imaging gang soon.

Doug Neal

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thanks for the comments all.

Doug, Rog. has taught me all I know, which is only a fraction of what he knows. Rog. is getting himself a dome so he'll no doubt raise the bar some more when he's sorted.

Captain Chaos

[MikeD]

WOW thats deep for 8 mins total. :shock:

Great work.

[Jaffa007]

Stunning image CC, very nice! 8)