Another M51

[Parallax]

On the first night of getting my CCD, back in July 08, I was so excited by the results that I frantically imaged lots of things. Consequently, the exposure times were short and the quantity was small. So, now that I have learnt to slow down, I have revisted M51. Previously I had taken 120s subs, but last night increased this to 300s. Now, if I could just get some RGB to go with it...

8 x 300s subs.

Explorer 200 & Atik 16ic-s, ST80 & webcam, PHD, DSS, PSCS.

Steve

[gary1968]

OH that is Lurvly Steve. Amazing detail and razor sharp.

Gary

[Beyond_Vision]

A very smooth and detailed M51, nicely captured and processed

Regards

Kevin

[centroid]

Very nicely done indeed Steve.

You must be well 'chuffed' with that one, and rightly so.

Dave

[brendant]

Beautiful image Steve, lovely processing, you have captured a great amount of faint detail, a first class image, well done.

Brendan

[bazza]

Crisp & clean image - lovely capture.

Barry.

[Dangerous-Dave]

That's a smashing result! Hmm maybe about time I moved up to CCD!

[Sam]

That's a cracker Steve! very very nice!

[Tim]

Steve, that is quite simply superb! And yes, it is just begging for the RGB data, hope you find time for it.

TJ

[Parallax]

Glad you all liked it.

RGB data being collected as we speak.

[Black Shuck]

Nice one Steve - are you and Dave in competition ??

As I said in Dave's post - this is one of my favourite Messiers.

Cheers

Bill£

[ngc2403]

great stuff,

why get RGB? looks ace just the way it is

[Parallax]

Managed to get the RGB data over the last couple of nights and this is the result.

All subs 8 x 5 minutes.

I'm well chuffed with this.

Steve

[RichieJarvis]

Wow! very very nice n smooth. I see you've captured the 'wispy' bits near the other galaxy - I wonder whether they would come out more??

On every M51 I've done so far, I make the mistake of processing them out.....

Great image

Cheers,

Richie