Deer Lick & Stephan's Quintet now >6hrs data

[Stub Mandrel]

Last night I got about 4 1/4 hours of 4-minute subs to add to last years 60s and the 12ths 90s subs. This years data only from cooled camera.

The 'blue stranger' in the quintet stands out well, starting to get some trace of the tidal tails. A few other galaxies, can you find the tiny face on spiral in the left half.

The 4 minute subs alone had loads of detail but streaking from high cloud, put in the mix much of the detail stayed and sigma kappa killed the streaks completely.

[Stub Mandrel]

Just the best 5 hours now, I think it's better?

[Shibby]

Nice - the second version has a much improved colour balance (the first is far too magenta). It looks like the background may have been clipped a bit too much; I'd suggest having a go at a more gentle curves adjustment. Having said that, I'm looking at work on the worst monitor ever!

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Shibby said:

I'd suggest having a go at a more gentle curves adjustment.

Will do, its tough to get rid of the background mottle AND not make it look a bit too flat.

[Coco]

very nice, you have picked up some nice star colour and reduced the back ground noise.

 

 

[andyboy1970]

Like the second image, well done.