M81-82 MOSAIC.

[ollypenrice]

Last night I finished M81 in the Meade 127 and added anonther 70 mins of Ha to M82. I then took an old widefield 81-82 from the Genesis, chopped out the bits I needed, and blended them all in the mighty Registar. There may be a better way but this way is easy and I don't end up diluting the quality of the two galaxies because only the fill-in bits come from the original widefield.

As for M81, I have never really liked it before but I found I got into it this time. The middle can end up as a series of flat ovals if you're not careful. Here I put opposite sigma curves into red and blue, boosting the low blue and the hight red.

I get a real buzz out of overcoming the smallness of the wonderful 285 chip using this method. Tonight I should finish the Triplet in the same way.

Shame to cut this down so much but here it is...

Oly

[Beyond_Vision]

Superb colour and detail picked up in both galaxies. Nicely put together Olly

Regards

Kevin

[Paxo]

Absolutely superb Olly, thanks for sharing.....

Steve..

[RichieJarvis]

That is beautiful Olly.

You've done an exceptional job with this - lovely!

Any chance you can send your weather this way?? Its chucking it down here....

Thanks for sharing,

Richie

[MikeD]

Great result and very nice colours.

Looking forward to the Triplet.

Mike.

[markcol]

Gorgeous colour and detail, Olly.

Mark

[beamish]

That really is just CLASS !!!

Well done on the blending Olly

Karlo

[Stephen Green]

a great image Oly and very good colours

Stephen

[Starjumper]

Cracking stuff Olly

John

[Jeff RV]

Nice one Olly.

Jeff.

[Psychobilly]

Real beaut Olly...

Expect a few Pm's for advice on your Regisatr techniques... if we ever get clear skies again...

I'll hopefully have a dual modded DSLR setup up and running in the next few weeks to try and produces imaegs like this... imaging through the 8" and Megrez 72 at the same time. whilsty beign autoguided by a thrid OTA......

Billy...

[Sam]

That's brilliant Olly - I really like M81 - so much detail and wonderful colour.

[Les Tilly]

Very nice indeed the best I have seen so far

Les

[Tim]

Brilliant Olly. Hope mine looks as nice!!

Whats the chances of a full res version being uploaded somewhere? Its a real shame to have the pic butchered by high compression, and i'd like this one as a keeper.

Cheers

TJ

[Whippy]

Very, very nice sir .

Tony..

[bazza]

Superb Olly, great colour.

Nice processing.

Barry.

[RobH]

Great work Olly.

That has turned out rather good hasn't it

Cheers

Rob

[MartinB]

Great result Olly, well worth all the hard work. Fantastic detail in the arms of M81