My best pic so far :O) M51

[Moon monkey]

70 lights x 70 secs not flats

Wanted to add more sat night , but the clouds had other ideas

I am quite happy though

[pajr777]

Fab image, this is my visual target for tonight so very helpful

What is the faint reddish glow on the edge of the frame at 11 o'clock from the galaxies?

[jeremy1]

Nice picture

[Moon monkey]

Thanks.... I think the orange glow is prob a street light I hadnt noticed Ill crop it of now .... lol

[Moon monkey]

Hope this is better

Cheers MM

[pajr777]

Wow, I feel great to have contributed with zero knowledge

[Moon monkey]

Ha Ha ..... dont think im far ahead of you on the knowledge front :)

[Gina]

Very nice image

[ollypenrice]

Good one.

Flats really would help. You have a green glow above the galaxy. A plug-in like Gradient Xterminater would nail that, though you could split the channels and look for the glow on the green. Using the Burn tool set to shadows at about 3% with a large, soft edged brush would probably deal with it.

Equally you could try the freebie on Rogelio Bernal Andreo's Deep Sky Colors site. Hasta la Vista Green is great for losing unwanted greens which are often a pest in colour imaging. Here is yours affter being run through Pixinsight's green noise removing filter. The remaining glow could be dealt with easily by PI's Dynamic Background Extraction.

Olly

[starnut]

Nice one well done

[Charon]

Well done Moon Monkey.

[Quatermass]

Great job MM I did notice the star below looks like you left the Bahtinov Mask on it as it has several spikes or is that just me going mad..

[Jessun]

Moon monkey, you have good reason to be happy there! Colour cast and gradients are a nuisance to everyone, so work on the data - a great deal can be edited away with a few well aimed clicks in a suitable program.

I like the colour in the galaxy - not too easy to get, and the background is actually very good considering you didn't take flats. Flats are pretty much essential and once you chuck them in you'll never go without them!

I am not familiar with your scope, but perhaps there is some coma going on? Fairly tedious to deal with during proessing I'd imagine, so might be something to browse around for!

Thanks for sharing!

[Moon monkey]

Thanks for all the advice and comments ... It really is appreciated ...

QM.. the funny spikes are a result of me cracking my LP filter

[Quatermass]

oh dear hope it wasnt too exspensive

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[Moon monkey]

Done a little more to it hope this is better .....

Cheers MM

[Moon monkey]

and one last time :)