And another M51

[tomato]

This is 6 hrs on the Wondrous Whirlpool, completing my favourite trio of galaxies in this region of the sky, along with M81 and M101.

Taken with the Dual Esprit 150/ASI 178 rig, 90 x 2 mins Lum, 30 x 2 mins RGB. I have struggled with the colour, the blue especially, it looks OK on my old Lenovo Thinkpad screen, but less so on my dedicated, calibrated processing monitor!

Thanks for looking

[JamesF]

I'm not sure the conversion to JPG has done it any favours which is a shame as there looks to be bags of detail there.  Do you have, say, a PNG version that you can post?

James

[tomato]

Thanks James, I have had another go with the data, this time using StarTools 1.6, this I think, is better.

[JamesF]

That definitely looks better to me.

James

[Paul M]

Nice image, the second process is definitely a big improvement.