4 hours on M33, my first image for over 180 days!

[SteveL]

After some issues that have prevented me from getting outside and imaging since early spring, I finally got the kit out on Friday night to grab what was supposed to be 7-8 hours on M33, but due to my meridian flip and failed to find the target again, plus my lighter socket thinging blowing a fuse and stopping my dew strap from working, I`m happy with what I have here

Its been a whiole, so I do apologise if the image looks odd... I have moved from XP to Windows 7 64bit, been through two laptop reinstalls (Win7 to Win7) and a new desktop PC (hardware failure on old one), so hopefully the screen calibration is OK, but I can never tell...

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt @ f/5.3

Guiding: TS OAG + SX Lodestar + Maxim

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 16 x 900s, Hutech LPS filter

Orchestrated: CDD Commander

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight

(Click on image for larger version)

[Astroscot2]

A lovely version Steve, very natural, colour looks OK to me.

[Ant]

Galaxy looks great mate! bit noisy round the edges of the image though? or it maybe my screen?

Ant

[James]

You don't seem to have lost the knack in the few months it's been since you got out :)

James

[MartinB]

That's what happens when you don't get on the forum very much, you miss stunners like this. The resolution is superb and it doesn't look in any way forced. Beautiful

[Spikey]

That looks very nice, great detail and colours.

[peter shah]

great stuff steve, super colour....how you getting on with ccd commander? Im having a spot of trouble with ACP at the moment and i was thinking about moving over.

[SJJ]

Great image. Love the colours

[harry page]

Hi

Good to see you back

Some nice resolution and depth , perhapes with a green tinge to the top that needs sorting SCNR in pixinsight will sort it for you

Regards Harry