Fuzzy M51

[david_taurus83]

Theres 10 hours in this! 10 hours of slightly out of focus at that! When I finally seen the stack I could tell the stars were out of focus. Deconvolution can only do so much. This was taken with no flattener either so star shapes are not great. I've spent a day processing and no matter what I do the galaxy turns out either pink or purple?!

Canon 6D 300 x 120s subs at ISO1600

Altair Starwave 102EDR at native f7

IDAS D2 filter

Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop

[TheMan]

I'd hang it on my wall.

[MarkAR]

Looks nice, though a little on the red side.

[alan potts]

A nice one Dave, rather small this target, only seen it with the Dob at x200 or so, that tend to make it a bit bigger. Maybe a touch red though

Alan

[david_taurus83]

Whole image looks red or the galaxies? I have a mild deuteranomaly so red/green isn't my strong point.

[david_taurus83]

Better?

[Star101]

Looks better to my eyes

That's a nice images. You have the extended dust too. Very nice.

[david_taurus83]

Side by side it looks better to me also. Odd as I usually trust the colour sampler tool to tell me the channels are well aligned. I backed off the red to 23 and kept green and blue at 30.

[geordie85]

I hope you don't mind that i had a slight play.