A bit of a floral galaxy....M63

[RobH]

Hello all,

Not posted anything for a while due to having a few other things in life to do so apologies if I've missed a few gems on the site

This was a bit of a struggle...it took about a month to get the subs....most of May and a little of June, due to our wonderful weather.

I was sick of looking at it by the time I'd done

When I had my first bash at processing it, to be honest the way it was coming out, I didn't think it had been worth the struggle so I put it away for June and came back to it fresh tonight.

I'm a bit happier with it now....you can get too wrapped up in something and only see imperfection sometimes!

I'm not quite sure how many subs eventually got used, but in total I had 11hrs 48 minutes of data and I reckon there's probably 9 hours or so in this.

RGB subs were all 6 minutes each, binned 2x2. Luminance was a combination of 10 minute, 6 minute and 4 minute subs.

Scope was my 14 inch LX200GPS, Atik 16 HRC camera, Astronomik filters, guided with a Tal 100R, Meade DSI pro and PHD.

Captured with Maxim and processed with Photoshop CS2.

First image is reduced for web viewing, the second is full size.

Hope you like it

Cheers

Rob

[Paxo]

That's a stunning image Rob, well worth the wait for the subs I think.

Steve..

[RobH]

The camera was an Atik 16 HR...not the HRC....sorry!

[LostNSpace]

Thats a beautiful result on the sunflower galaxy Rob, as they always say `Good things come to those that wait` and it was well worth waiting for this....

Great work

Mark

[Beyond_Vision]

It's a Old English Rose if ever I have saw one . That is one heck of a lot of data, great patience and excellent processing has gone into producing that.

Regards

Kevin

[MartinB]

Well done Rob for sticking at it, you've come up with a superb image there. I started something similar with M51 but gave up after a series of dodgy nights. Well done for your persistence.

[steppenwolf]

Well worth the hard work - a smashing image

[MikeD]

First class image, it really is worth the time and effort to get lots of data and this shot proves it. well done.

Mike.

[algol]

yah very nice galaxy there. good colour and contrast.

[Sam]

OMG!!! :shock: :shock: That's a stunning result and shows a heap of dedication - over 9 hours of exposure used is just staggering - well done. There's obviously a huge amount of work gone into that image and you must be very happy with the result!

Sam

[Starflyer]

Sam sums it up nicely, well done for not getting too sick of looking at it, it's a great image

Ian