Leo Triplet

[Daf1983]

First attempt imaging the Leo Triplet. About 3.5 hours integration time, with flats, dark flats and darks. Stacked in photoshop, processed in photoshop. Equipment used as was my Skywatcher Evostar 80ED and ZWO 533MC pro.

I think my processing is coming along, but still feel my background isn't quite right. CC welcome as always

Dafydd

[Clarkey]

That's a pretty good image for 3.5 hours. The background looks OK to me - what's bothering you?

A bit more saturation might help with getting slightly better star colours and bring out the galaxies a bit more.

[Daf1983]

45 minutes ago, Clarkey said:

That's a pretty good image for 3.5 hours. The background looks OK to me - what's bothering you?

A bit more saturation might help with getting slightly better star colours and bring out the galaxies a bit more.

Thanks for your comment. Re background, never sure how much to darken the background in processing, and how much to push noise reduction.

I think I lose a bit of perspective after spending hours processing the image, so ti's good to have a second opinion

[Adam1234]

Looks like slightly too much noise reduction on the background in my opinion, but still a nice image