Clear at last!

[Ambermile]

Well, for a couple of hours anyway.  I had been looking forward to playing with the VC200L but that has been collared by SC for testing purposes so I decided to bolt the C5 on the EQ6 (guided with the SV80/9D) and see what it could do.  Was intending M101 really so had to put the 6.3 reducer in there as well.  So, these with the ART-285, all 3 min 2x2 subs messed in Registax 3

M51, 10 subs.

M63, 4 subs.

M101, 8 subs.  This was the first of the evening and there was still ice on the 285 because I had run the camera an hour before and then turned it off again.  Idjit

Arthur

[Mick.G.]

Nice image's there Ambermile,glad to see another of the clan have managed to get out.

(Green with envy)

Mick

[Jamie]

Three nice images there Arthur loadsa detail in the spiral arms.

Well done.

[GordonCopestake]

Beautiful images Arthur, glad to see someone is gettin some sky! It's 100% cloud here and looks it's here for the rest of this month

[CELESCOPE]

Super images all of them Arthur ,love m63 that is a hard one to get , lucky you , at least you made the best of the time you had mate ,

Rog

[OXO]

Three great images glad you made some use of the clear night

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I have got to get me one of them "sky" things. Met office reckon I might get a go Wednesday or Thursday, but they didn't say which one.

Nice pictures and nice to know the stars are still out there.

Captain Chaos

[Ambermile]

Thanks for all the nice comments people. It was pleasant just to get out there and play with all the toys again, some of which I'd forgotten I even had - let alone how to use :oops:

Looking good for Kelling apparently and this was really a shake-down night to get the kit sorted for that. Turned out quite well in the end... cloudy tonight again though

Arthur

[FLO]

Thanks for sharing Arthur

[Naz]

At last Arthur, no trails, great detail, good to see someone had a clear sky.

naz

[tom.yates]

Great images Arthur, Glad someone got some clear skies.

[MartinB]

Great to see some fresh images starting to appear. Good show arthur, could look at galaxy pics all day. Lots of detail in these, enjoyed playing with them in photoshop.

[MartinB]

Sorry, here's my fiddle. In getting rid of the halos I've lost the lovely trailing arms Quite a challenge.

[CELESCOPE]

takes time Martin , i use the lasso, and do sections at a time, that way you can deal with certain parts without loosing the main detail in the image ,

Rog

[MartinB]

takes time Martin , i use the lasso, and do sections at a time, that way you can deal with certain parts without loosing the main detail in the image ,

Rog

Yep, the trick is not making it look like it's been lassooed. Good one for practice because the detail is so delicate.

Thanks for the images Arthur :)

[Ambermile]

You know, it's rather flattering to see other people playing with your pics :oops:

Arthur

PS - I can post the uncompressed bitmaps on Ambermile if anyone'sinterested?

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I would be interested in the unprocessed images. If only to see how my unprocessed images compare. That way i would know if it's the imaging or the processing that I need to work on the most. (I suspect that it will be both).

Captain Chaos

[MartinB]

You know, it's rather flattering to see other people playing with your pics :oops:

Sorry Arthur, I would be a bit brassed off if someone had messed up my image (didn't like those halos though ). Would love to play with your unprocessed images

[lunator]

Arthur

Glad you got out. Lovely pics.

Maybe several guys can process your raw images and outline the process used.

Then post them on the fprum and people could see how different approaches work.

Cheers

Ian

[Ambermile]

OK, there's an 8-bit bitmap here (1Mb)

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ambermile/M51-SGL.bmp

and a 16-bit TIFF here (2Mb)

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ambermile/M51-SGL.tif

Both are an unmessed stack of 10 2x2 binned 3 minute frames of the M51 shot. Enjoy

Arthur

[CELESCOPE]

u can see Arthurs redone m101 i done in the Blog

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I'll have a play with those, thanks for making them available Arthur.

Captain Chaos

[OXO]

M51 Re editted from your M51 bmp Image.

[russ]

Had a quick play too. There's quite a lot of detail around the arm that i can't bring out without destroying the image....really annoying.

It's a flippin cracking image though Arthur! :shock:

Russ

[russ]

slightly different: