M31 from dark site

[laser_jock99]

Fairly pleased with this M31 image (other than the core is totaly burned out). A stack of three 300s guided subs (no darks or flats) Fuji S5 Pro camera @ ISO800, ISO1600 & ISO3200. Scope was Altair Astro StarWave ED80 + 0.8x reducer.

[Mr Q]

Nice image, capturing its two companions nicely as well as some dust lanes. Well done!

[fredster]

Lovely image, so much detail.

[Keiran]

The dust lanes have come out nicely. Next time try and keep your ISO at about 800, and lowering the sub time (take some at 300s and some at 180s). It will be less noisy, and may give you a little more detail. How many subs was this?

It may be worth having another play with it, you seem to have lost a bit of star colour. Your orange/red stars should be more orange/red

Its a great attempt though, it looks good

Keiran

[ollypenrice]

Yes, very decent result.

You might be able to do a less aggressive stretch just for the core and then layer it in in Ps. This works well for galaxies. If you just put the short stretch underneath you can use a well feathered erasor to remove the burned out top layer.

Olly

[Gina]

Very nice

[laser_jock99]

The dust lanes have come out nicely. Next time try and keep your ISO at about 800, and lowering the sub time (take some at 300s and some at 180s). It will be less noisy, and may give you a little more detail. How many subs was this?

It may be worth having another play with it, you seem to have lost a bit of star colour. Your orange/red stars should be more orange/red

Its a great attempt though, it looks good

Keiran

I agree with you about the high ISO's. I use 3200 to check framing but probably should not have included that sub in 'the stack' as it introduced a lot of noise. The stack was only 3 subs anyway.

[Keiran]

Only 3 subs, thats increadible.... I think you should be very pleased with your result then. That really is good