M 65 Leo Triplet with DSLR

[StargeezerTim]

My last image from last night. Just managed 13 X 5 min, iso 1600, DSS, Photoshop etc.

It is a lovely looking group and my first attempt at imaging it.

Cheers... Tim.

edit... restacked with kappa sigma rather than average (still only 13 lights) but now its minus hot pixels and with a smoother finish.

 

[triton1]

Wow like it a lot some subtle colour and detail there,well done.

[Davey-T]

Like that a lot Tim, excellent DSLR image.

Dave

[Daniel-K]

splendid effort Tim.

[MartinB]

That's excellent Tim, nice colour and you've pulled out lots of detail without hammering the data.  Looks smooth at this scale.  

[laudropb]

Very nice piece of work, especially with a DSLR.

[wavydavy]

Very good.............!

[gorann]

Really nice! Looks much like my DSLR effort on the triplets the other night, but I did not get as much of that red details in the galaxies as you, so I am a bit envious. Maybe I should try to reprocess mine. Mine was with a 127 mm ES ED refractor, so same aperture as yours but less FL, and a Canon 60Da (15 x 250", ISO 1600).

[steppenwolf]

I really like this image - lovely subtle colour and processing, nicely done!

[todd8137]

Very nice image  you got a fine image there 

pat

[StargeezerTim]

1 hour ago, gorann said:

Really nice! Looks much like my DSLR effort on the triplets the other night, but I did not get as much of that red details in the galaxies as you, so I am a bit envious. Maybe I should try to reprocess mine. Mine was with a 127 mm ES ED refractor, so same aperture as yours but less FL, and a Canon 60Da (15 x 250", ISO 1600).

 

Gorann, I have discovered that I get better results without using Darks, though I do use dithering. So I just stack the lights, a master flat and a master bias into DSS. It might be worth trying that. I also find that using a soft light blending mode routing helps to push the colour up without adding too much noise. Cheers, Tim.

 

[DaveS]

I like that a lot, better than I got with my Trius 694. I must try harder.

[PeterCPC]

Very nice image. I must have a go at that sometime.

Peter

[Stephen Green]

Very nice image I like the detail

Stephen

[gorann]

11 hours ago, StargeezerTim said:

 

Gorann, I have discovered that I get better results without using Darks, though I do use dithering. So I just stack the lights, a master flat and a master bias into DSS. It might be worth trying that. I also find that using a soft light blending mode routing helps to push the colour up without adding too much noise. Cheers, Tim.

 

I don't use darks either as I heard that they can do more harm than good for DSLR since you have no control of sensor temperature. I see in some of my images that I should probably start using flats. I do not have much noise problem with the sub-zero temperatures I have here right now so I no not think I need bias. I use Adobe Raw in Photoshop for making tifs out of CR2 raw and initial noise reduction (which works great with Adobe Raw), and Nebulosity 4 for stacking the tifs. Then I do the rest in Photoshop CS5. I am not sure what you mean by "a soft light blending mode".

[xtreemchaos]

great shot Tim, i see you have beat the space invaders,well done,thanks for sharing,charl.

[StargeezerTim]

11 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

great shot Tim, i see you have beat the space invaders,well done,thanks for sharing,charl.

They were no match for the combined gaming talents of SGL!

[StargeezerTim]

35 minutes ago, gorann said:

I don't use darks either as I heard that they can do more harm than good for DSLR since you have no control of sensor temperature. I see in some of my images that I should probably start using flats. I do not have much noise problem with the sub-zero temperatures I have here right now so I no not think I need bias. I use Adobe Raw in Photoshop for making tifs out of CR2 raw and initial noise reduction (which works great with Adobe Raw), and Nebulosity 4 for stacking the tifs. Then I do the rest in Photoshop CS5. I am not sure what you mean by "a soft light blending mode".

I think I learnt this from a post from Ollie. Duplicate the layer twice. Select the top layer and change blending mode to soft light, merge with layer underneath. Change blending mode of that one to colour, merge. Repeat as necessary. 

[gorann]

Amazing magic, I did it twice and now my triplet is more reddish, much like yours.

Thanks Tim & Ollie!

[astroman001]

Very nice image, lots of detail

Peter

[Sam]

Very nice image Tim, excellent colour.