M101 BHaRGB!!!!

[MartinB]

Went out quite late on the 13th. Beautiful night with good transparency. Seeing was poor though so decided to get some binned RGB on M81. Unfortunately M81 was right on the northern meridian and the mount wasn't happy (huh GEMS, give me wedge ). Went for M101 instead and got 40mins each of RGB binned 2x2. Next night tried to get the luminence but had a neighbour round for some observing with the NS8 and I didn't spot that the guiding was all over the place so that was 3 hours of junk. Spotted it at the end, tweaked the backlash and got just 30 mins of Ha binned x2. Had a gradient for the red LEDs on the dew strap splitter box!!

The colour is ok and I've used the most detailed channel (blue) as a luminence. Mixed in the Ha and I'm surprised to say the least, in fact i'm chuffed to chuffing bits! Now just itching to get out again and get some proper luminence - 3-5 hours worth with a CLS filter.

So - ED120 with SXV H9 BHaRGB

PS have posted this image and once again the dark end of the histogram has been clipped so a bit of background detail has been lost

[CELESCOPE]

Oh yes well done on that one Martin , a nice mix , and what an unusual lum , so blue came out pretty good as a lum then , interesting, so does that mean an 0111 would do a lum ok then , but anyway i like it , the outer detail is really good Martin, dont always get those outer arms to show much ,so excellent on that ,

I think its about time you had a web page ,so we can look back at these images ,

great work

Rog

[MartinB]

Thanks Rog. Yes I'm working on a web site - I have a domain, the address is going to be www.astropixels.co.uk Nothing there yet but I'm planning on featuring the work of other enthusiastic imagers as well as my own stuff. So I will be in touch!!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Excellent Martin, that's gorgeous. I trust an unbinned Lum. will be arriving soon for the bigger version?

Captain Chaos

[MartinB]

Thanks CC. Well you are the worshipper of the cloud gods so I'm in your hands on that one!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Bottle of "worship" in my hand at the moment. I think we're having a weekend off as the gods are partying, maybe Monday.

Captain Chaos

[Grant]

Great image Martin! Really superb

I've got an idea for improving the quality of images on Isee Stars, in the mean time though, if you ever want to see just the original image without any processing or messing around then the address is: http://iseestars.net/image/8084/original/image.jpg

You can get the same for any image, simply replace thumbnail, large or normal in the address with original.

Cheers,

Grant

[MartinB]

aha! Worth knowing - thanks Grant

[lunator]

Martin

That a very good pic.

It has some very nice colour

Cheers

Ian

[Grant]

Martin, I've just changed the way Isee Stars processes images, the quality should now be as good as the original in the thumbnails and other sizes that Isee Stars produces.

Unfortunately, this change will only apply to new images you upload.

Cheers,

Grant

[Caz]

Well thats a little bit special isn't it. 8)

[Jeff RV]

Muy bien!!

Jeff.

[moondog]

Superb image Martin - like a sparkling jewel !

No wonder you're pleased, well done.

8)

MD

[MartinB]

Thanks a lot folks. Looking forward to adding to it now

[barkis]

I to be sure tis a real beauty me lad.

Well done indeed.

[dazza1639]

nice one Martin another Stunner

Darren