M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

[de0s]

This is the luminance data for M51. For the colors I'll have to wait a little bit as the clouds and I seem to have a disagreement

Acquisition details:

- 24x600s lights with a Hutech IDAS LPS-D1 filter

- 60 dark frames, 60 bias frames, no flats (I forgot about them so I had to remove the dust bunnies in PS)

 

Equipment:

- scope: SW ED80 with TeleVue TRF-2008 FF/FR on SW AT-EQ6 GT mount

- camera: Atik 460ex + EFW2

 

AstroBin link

 

Clear skies,

Andrei

[de0s]

hmmm... I see some very strange artefacts in the attached jpeg; not present in file I have locally on my machine 

[xtreemchaos]

nice image mate,loads going on.thanks for sharing...charl...

[ollypenrice]

Pretty good outer halo there as well as the galaxy. Best of luck with the colour.

Olly

[Notty]

Gorgeous detail, and can't wait to see the colour

[Coco]

Very nice !

The details superb..

[de0s]

Thanks guys :-)

I'm also looking forward for the colors... The clouds seem to also know that

[swag72]

Looks great so far