RASA Meets M31

[skygeezer]

My first complete image with my new system. 45 subs X 240 seconds from last night. Full (uncropped) frame to show image scale.

I'm hoping the weather holds later this week so I can get back out!

Curt

[MarsG76]

beautiful image

[wxsatuser]

RASA doing very well with short subs.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Stunner!

[David Smith]

That is a cracking image.

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Some very good detail captured. Thanks for posting.

[skygeezer]

Thanks everyone for the kind compliments!

[callisto]

Fantastic image 

Mark

[ollypenrice]

Lots of signal! Good resolution, too. I don't think 240 seconds is all that short at this F ratio but the image does look a little black clipped to my eye. This object has a lovely faint outer glow, very extended, and I think it may have been clipped out?

Olly

[Starfisher]

nice image indeed. hope you will posting more

[skygeezer]

Lots of signal! Good resolution, too. I don't think 240 seconds is all that short at this F ratio but the image does look a little black clipped to my eye. This object has a lovely faint outer glow, very extended, and I think it may have been clipped out?

Olly

Thanks for the feedback, Olly. I'm always looking for ways to improve my processing since I'm relatively new to it. I checked my histogram in levels (Photoshop) and the black point is actually to the left of the toe. I may have introduced an artifact at some step in my processing but not sure. The nice thing is, I have the data and can practice iterations of processing and see if I can improve. But honestly, if you hadn't told me of the issue my inexperienced eye wouldn't have noticed it! So, thanks for pointing it out!

Curt

[skygeezer]

I recently reprocessed my data and think it looks a little better.

Curt

[Space Cowboy]

Superb image!