Leo-1 and Regulus 13-04-2020

[fwm891]

I used Regulus as a sync star last night and decided to try and get Leo-1 a dwarf galaxy hidden in it's glare.

Mix of 180 and 300 second subs (12 total 7 and 5 respectively).

Processed in PI

Scope 115 EDT-APO camera asi294MC pro

[Tommohawk]

Very nice - amazed you can get anything that close to Regulus - might benefit from some more data/less noise I guess?

Edited April 14, 2020 by Tommohawk

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Interesting target, I'm fascinated by these dim dwarf satellite galaxies. But I don't understand why your image is so noisy, have you applied a sharpening filter to it? hope you don't mind, but I had a very quick go at processing your posted image and got this.

(Denoise in Canon DPP, GradEx and HLVG in Photoshop.)

Edited April 14, 2020 by Knight of Clear Skies

[fwm891]

@Knight of Clear SkiesNoisy - yes. Probably me not taking enough subs and not applying any noise reduction to the subs during processing: Below I've taken the image through TGV-Denoise and a couple of other tweaks in PI.

 

Still has noise but I can live with it until  I have a longer session through less hazy skies.

Edited April 14, 2020 by fwm891
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