Yes, sorry, another M31

[trevboyd]

After my improved attempt at this over the weekend, I thought I'd have another go last night under very clear skies (still far from "dark" skies, however )

The tracking was playing up really badly, some subs had huge trails from the RA drive having issues - I was running it from batteries, which I don't think are very reliable in the cold... As a result, I gave up after only 25 subs, of which only 23 were any good.

In spite of all that, I think the result is an improvement over my last one - I've played with the levels, curves and contrast a lot more, and there's more dust!

Still a million miles away from the much better examples on here (you all know who you are! ), but given the short subs and other issues, I'm happy (and best of all, I can look at it and know it's mine! )

(click to enlarge)

Trev

[DeanWatson]

Super dust lane detail Trevor!

Ahhh batteries! Gone over to mains now myself and apart from the possibility of death at 3 am from electrocution in the backgarden I've not looked back!

Have a look at Tom Dianes tutorial on curves like I was doing Trevor - It helped me enormously if thats any help (not that you need it). I just can't believe how I got by before.

[Psychobilly]

HI Trev,

It's a nice M31 but I think theres a lot more to come out of the Data.. Have you thought about attacking the gradient with Pixinsight? If you knock the gradient back then you'll have a lot more scope to work onthe fainter details.

Billy...