How many...

[brendant]

Whilst trying to reprocess my previous image of M97/M108 it became apparent that there were a lot of faint blotches around this area, so checked on Cartes du Ciel and to my surprise discovered this area is really rich in objects, think I have managed to identify them correctly, the faintest being MGC 9-19-2 @ Mag 16.8, not bad for the ED80.

Sorry for the large image - compressing looses too much detail.

Brendan

[jonbarr87]

Oh wow great job! Looks like you got em all.

[Psychobilly]

Brendan,

Convert the image to grayscale, invert it and use some really radical B&C processing and then see what you can find....

I tried it on the jpeg but the infos gone already need to do it on the tiff...

Billy...

[brendant]

Good tip Billy, should have thought of that, will give it a try later on the TIFF.

Brendan

[jgs001]

Wow, there's a lot in the Brendan. What's radical B&C processing ?

[Psychobilly]

Brightness and contrast... you can be brutal with it when you convert to grayscale and then invert...

Normally a couple of cycles will bing out some really faint objects...

Here one i did earlier....

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/PsychoBillyUK/AstroPhotography#5195118560199401650

Billy...

[jgs001]

Gotcha thanks