M81 & M82 - 17 hours DSLR

[Gina]

Great captures - well done

[ianaiken]

That's a brilliant and natural looking image. I think your technique works, the stars have kept their colour and are not bloated and the galaxies look really detailed and natural. You should record how you did the processing

[Welrod50]

The time invested and the effort has really paid off. Magazine worthy me thinks!

[stellawolf]

Simply fabulous well done

[Special K]

That's great work! The luminance version looks amazing! Wish it looked like that in my scope

[Fenriz]

Wow, incredible detail.

[Betelgeuze]

Thanks, I'm very pleased so many of you like it!

Cheers,

Simon

[ollypenrice]

Thanks, I'm very pleased so many of you like it!

Cheers,

Simon

The praise is well deserved. Outstanding.

Olly

[nightvision]

Great image, almost sparkles!

[earth titan]

Impressive from a DSLR.

Typed by me on my fone, using fumms... Excuse eny speling errurs.

[Shibby]

Fantastic! Classy detail and colour.

A great piece of work and awesome result

[Mark72]

Nicely done Simon,

Certainly very natural looking galaxies, you probably do not like saturated colours.

I'm wondering after 17 hours and at f/4.5 would not background start to reveal some IFN or is it hard to expect with ISO 200?

Mark

[Amra]

Wow, very impressive!

Would also love to hear what processing those images went through.

[nightvision]

Nicely done Simon,

Certainly very natural looking galaxies, you probably do not like saturated colours.

I'm wondering after 17 hours and at f/4.5 would not background start to reveal some IFN or is it hard to expect with ISO 200?

Mark

Would that require a different approach to processing?

I found this impressive view of the IFN for those that are curious:

http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2009/01/03/m81-m82-and-integrated-flux-nebula.html

[Scott]

so very impressive. thanks for sharing your talent with us

[Betelgeuze]

I used Theli for stacking and PixInsight for the entire editing

[Austin]

Thats a great image with heaps of detail! very nice

[Superdavo]

Amazing shot! The only change i'd consider making is that by slightly altering the contrast, you could make the background completely black

[tony]

thats pretty damn good for a dslr and i'd be very happy indeed if mine were half as good.

[Coco]

Fantastic!

I'd really like to see one of the raw subs? just to see the noise..

[ultranova]

That has to be the best DSLR version I have ever seen of M81 /82 by far

What ever your doing keep doing it.

Top stuff.

Paul.

[earth titan]

That has to be the best DSLR version I have ever seen of M81 /82 by far

What ever your doing keep doing it.

Top stuff.

Paul.

Agreed!

Typed by me on my fone, using fumms... Excuse eny speling errurs.

[Betelgeuze]

Here is a 15min. ISO 200 RAW-File... ambient was -15

Cheers,

Simon

[Betelgeuze]

Here is a 15min. ISO 200 RAW-File... ambient was -15

Cheers,

Simon

Forgot the link xD

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7sl1ps6gfwa6od/IMG_5076.CR2

[andyo]

That is a superb image well done