M33 LRGB

[blinky]

I think this is only about my third go at LRGB - Managed to finally get my guiding sorted the other night as well, the first few subs still had trailing, so I offset the balance and voila! Perfect subs for the rest of the night.  This time I followed the Light Vortex stacking guide, and did drizzle stack, so apologies for the size of the image!  This is 11X5min L and 7X5min each of RGB.  I think I will revisit sometime as I don't think the red channel is properly aligned - as the RGB was not drizzle aligned I could not get Pixinsight to register the RGB data against the L until I rescaled the RGB to the size of the L, thought it would just have done this itself?

Anyway, any comments etc always taken, have I gone to far/not far enough with any of it....

[x6gas]

This is stunning - very, very well done.

Some think that this galaxy must be easy because of its angular size but M33 is a tough target to process and you've done very well.

Kudos.

[blinky]

Cheers!  It is a tricky one to process, Im no doubt going to have another go at this, might even add more L data tonight but will see...

[x6gas]

Honestly I am not sure that more data would help that much.  you've done a terrific job on the actual galaxy but if I am being hyper-critical the background is a tad too dark in my view.  I try to keep mine above 23 (I think 23 is the magic number that @ollypenricesuggested to me and he's the boss as far as I'm concerned) in each channel and sometimes I keep it as high as 30, thought that's not everyone's taste... the sky isn't pitch black, after all!

[blinky]

You are the 2nd person to suggest the background is too dark - will go take another look, its always tricky to get the background looking 'right'

[x6gas]

 

1 hour ago, blinky said:

You are the 2nd person to suggest the background is too dark - will go take another look, its always tricky to get the background looking 'right'

Well it's personal preference: your image, your rules!  Too light and the object won't 'pop' but it's a bit subjective...

[blinky]

Hows this version?

[x6gas]

Spot on for me.  Star colour looks better too.

Excellent stuff.