M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy with New Scope

[davedownsouth]

My first proper attempted with the new scope; a Skywatcher Esprit 120ED.  Taken from the back garden on Tuesday Night / Wednesday morning.  Consists of 9 x 5 minutes 1x1 Luminance and 9 x 4 minutes 2x2 RGB.  Flats and Bias applied, and the flats were absolutely required as there were loads of dust bunnies .  All processing done with PixInsight, and once more, huge thanks to Harry for the brilliant tutorial videos .

Not quite ready to do a review of this scope yet, or the Lakeside Astro Motor Focus (which is just fantastic, out and out five star bit of kit), think I need to a couple more sessions with it first, but a quick overview is great scope, but deep reservations about the flattener and how awful it is to attach the camera to the scope via the flattener   .

All comments welcome

Crop of Sunflower: -

[toxic]

wow nice one dave its a corker

[Coco]

Lovely Dave, wonderful colours, insoires me to chease this one down.

Did you use the morphological transformation routine in pixinsight to 'round off' those stars, Harry does a great tutorial if you didnt.

[Davey-T]

Nice job Dave, nice star colours, haven't got round to processing mine yet.

Dave

[davedownsouth]

Lovely Dave, wonderful colours, insoires me to chease this one down.

Did you use the morphological transformation routine in pixinsight to 'round off' those stars, Harry does a great tutorial if you didnt.

I have only tried the basic Harry tutorials so far; but watched the Star Mask Vid last night and think I need to apply this to the image to 'dim' the stars back a bit.  Before doing this, I need to work out how to get the autofocus program working for the Lakeside as of the images I took, the stars were really sharp in the first few, but were a little out of focus in the last few.  Still happy with them, but if I can get them all looking like the first few, it has got to improve things .