M74 much improved.

[ollypenrice]

Well, I hope it is! This is with Yves and the 14 inch ODK. I added 5 hours of luminance in 30 minute subs in order to go deeper and have enough L signal for sharpening. We have a load of nasties in the imaging train, probably dust or pollen or dead mice, and the flats were having a job to keep up with them! I need to do a major clean but in another life I was building up another rig for our guests and didn't have time to do this job. Tomorrow I must get it done! The background sky was a dog's breakfast so I did some really dodgy things to sort it out.

Anyway, M74;

BIgger http://ollypenrice.s...3HRs web-X3.jpg

Olly

[heedthebaw]

Great image!

[neil groves]

I like this kind of image, because there are billions of stars in the scene, it makes the galaxy seem to float, very nice Olly.

Neil.

[psemil]

Very nice image of this small galaxy

[lensman57]

Great capture, is already on my next tto do list.

Reagrds,

A.G

[Ibbo!]

much better-good stuff

[andyo]

superb shot, great detail on the outer edges the galaxy and the colour is very nice agree with Ibbo much improved

[theo]

Thats a lovely image with some really nice detail Olly. I have this one on my to do list!!

Pete.

[vdb]

And my version, same data of course ...

/Yves

[swag72]

Clearly great data as there's two cracking images here - Hats off to you both!

[broca]

Fantastic image!

[Uranium235]

Very nice Olly, perhaps its time for a clean?

I had something living inside my optical train until a couple of weeks ago (it was on the reducer). The only way I knew there was something in there was because I could see it crawl across the laptop screen when shooting flats! I always check the dew shield for spider webs before going out too, those little blighters get everywhere.

[foundaplanet]

Beautiful work.

[Russe]

amazing images...

[Sandancer10]

Fantastic images, one for list ever growing list I think.

[wxsatuser]

I can see the mice.

Cannot add much to already said, even with dodgy bits, whatever they are,  both images blow your socks off.

[peter shah]

I can just about see, in the higher res version, some artefacts presumably through processing out  these problems  you've mentioned....but beautifully handled and a credit to your processing skills .....super image

Is there any reason for the off centred framing......start of a mosaic panel??

[x6gas]

Lovely capture and processing of both versions.

I'm curious as to why you chose this particular framing?

[Russe]

If you add more data from another session, do you restack the whole lot?

And if you plan to add a different exposure length (ie 10 min to a set of 5 mins), do you stack that separately and add it as a layer in ie PS?

I'm wondering how I'd add 10min subs to my 11 hrs 5min sub data of M74.

Thanks!

[AstroAndy]

Awesome shots.

[moxican]

That is a very nice image. Great work

[Ewan]

Agreed with the above Olly , not even looked for this yet , not sure i would get that much with my c8 either.

Whatever the faults you mentioned it looks fine to me.

[Jannis]

We have a load of nasties in the imaging train, probably ..... dead mice, and the flats were having a job to keep up with them!

Now that's something to suspect, haha :laugh2:

Then again, if it were true, it wouldn't be that funny >_<

But, as for the topic, awsome image!