M101 from SGL7

[Spikey]

And I thought M51 was hard to process!

Galaxies are tough to handle that's for sure.

This is about 4hrs Lum 1x1, RGB 1 hr each 2x2, Ha 1.5 hrs. ED80 & 16HR.

DSS & PS7. Flats but I removed the bias as it made things worse not better. I'll revisit this data another day, perhaps with Maxim.

[Quatermass]

Great image spiky you have done a good job on the colour and details as well you must be pleased with it.

[Spikey]

Cheers QM, yes I am pleased with it mate.

I found it challenging to process to say the least. It's got a good combination of faint and bright areas, So blowing it completely would have been easy.

Still don't know what I'm doing with colour so its mainly done by eye.

[Quatermass]

Practise is all part of the progress I guess and processing the data is great fun as much fun as taking the images

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[Chris]

Well Spikey I think you've done a great job processing it the colours both in the background and galaxy look cracking to me:headbang:

[Gina]

Lovely job - beautiful image

[RobH]

Looking good Spikey....you picked a tough target and have done a fine job

Rob

[Jessun]

I think it's great! Nice backgound, good colour and a lot going on in the galaxy! Thums up!

[AllanJ]

Lovely image.

Allan

[Uranium235]

What night did you take this on? The Ha has shown up a few of the red blobs that are missing from my version, maybe thats something I should try. You also kept the star colour better than I did. Its an object with quite a low surface brightness, so youre always going to have a job on.

Good work anyways

[Spikey]

Thanks for the kind comments.

This is from the Friday and Saturday nights. I re-processed it from scratch and I forgot to add a star layer this time. There is another Lum layer in this version, blended in at about 35% to try and sharpen things up a tad more. The Ha is blended with the Red channel and also as another layer after giving it a false colour, it wouldn't show up before I did that step. No science to any of it, all done by eye.