Guess What?

[glennbech]

... M31 Of course... This is the only time I'll spend on it this year. This image is "Straight from the cow". No darks, no flats, no bias, just 9x360 seconds. I originally had about 14, but DSLR Focus version 3 decided to "reuse" the file name series and re-wrote my last 5 images.. There is always something!

I have 13 darks, 13 flats & 13 dark flats for subtraction and division on the SD card. I'll post the "after flats&darks" later. I suspect half that I'll get a decent image after the flat subtraction.

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[Psychobilly]

looks like some decent data to work with Glenn...

Billy...

[glennbech]

As Usual the flat & dark subtraction helps a bit. I went a bit overboard with post processing on this one; I guess I got intrigued with the detail hidden in the outer spiral arms. All in all Im quite please with under an hour of data. I've got some Glow on the left- and right hand side in the red channel that was a bit nasty to get rid off, hence the Crop. Once I find out where the glow comes from I might go back and do a "full field". I think this object looks best with more space around it than I have managed here...

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[Psychobilly]

Nice image Glenn

I personally like M31 diagonally across the frame...

Billy...

[glennbech]

Mee to ; I'll do a deep dive into my light frames to see if I might have caught the roof of my house in a few subs.

Im also not happy about the red hue, I like images of this object better in cooler colours. I should have gone with my unmodified 400D for this target I guess.

[glennbech]

Diagonal across the frame and I've experimented with Pixinsight to remove the signs of some bad flats...

Finished!

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[Jeff RV]

Great stuff Glen, nice one.

Jeff.

[beamish]

Looks great Glen :salute:

Karlo

[glennbech]

... Just kidding !!! Just saw that I lost heaps of detail on my background extraction; this was due to a "downsampling" in pixinsight. Now I'm finished; will not touch this again; promise! :-) Resized to about 80%.

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[Psychobilly]

Hi Glen thats a great "finished" result

Billy...

[jgs001]

Glen, that's a cracking result

[barkis]

You've worked your socks off on this one Glen. and turned out a belter.

You have to be very pleased with the end result. It will sure do for me anyway.

Nice work.

Ron.

[glennbech]

thanks for the nice comments; I've certainly learned a lot of post-processing on this one!

[Sam]

Very nice M31 Glenn - the final version seems to have brought out the best.