Rain at Les Granges

[ollypenrice]

Only joking! Lovely sky all night.

(Don't hit me...)

RGB back in the filter wheel tonight for a bit of M33. I didn't bin the colours for a change and think it helped with the delicate detail. Half an hour per colour plus 110 mins luminance. I did the RGB first and processed them while the Lum came in.

Olly.

[661-pete]

I'm sure even as lovely a place as les Granges (by all accounts) is, must get a spot of rain occasionally - and when it does, I bet you get splendid seeing once the rain has stopped!

Beautiful M33 anyway! Not sure whether the technique you described did it, but you've certainly got excellent colour detail there! I really must put it on my TO DO list (if I get another chance back down in France myself - pressure of work! ). I'm just a bit shy of going for such a popular target which so many others have done such excellent work on....

Don't worry about teasing folks on here: I'm sure your contributions are one of the things that keep people's morale up, stop people deserting the forum, in this season of cloudy skies and little home-grown activity...

[cygnusx1]

Stonking! Lovely colour and such a rich starfeld, look at those nurseries!

[steppenwolf]

Excellent colour and detail - big object this isn't it?

[barkis]

You really are presenting us with some super imagery Ollie, and this is another one.

Lovely galaxy this is. That orange star is a beaut.

Ron.

[markcol]

Cracking M33, Olly.

Keep this up and you might get a mass migration going from cloudy UK!

Mark

[ollypenrice]

You are all most kind. As well as taking the colour unbinned (and I think this helped preserve the detail, myself) I followed advice from the forum and tried differentiating the subs. Red and green I took in 250 sec subs, blue in 200 and lum in 300. This has given me the best unprocessed stars I have yet managed, with the colour well contained within and around the lum and no bad blue haloes. A bit shorter still on the blue might be good since close inspection shows a touch of blue bloat.

I'm looking forward to a shot at the other big spirals using this formula.

Because of a bleary-eyed boob I failed to subtract the darks, I now realize. All credit to Atik, I'd say.

Olly.

[Tim]

Phwoar! Nice piccy

TJ

[Jeff RV]

Great M33 Olly, Sharp as a razor!!

Jeff.