Spying on next door >check latest pic at bottom of thread ! (but left tops ones and the story behind them)

[powerlord]

"These milkywayers - spying on us all the time. We have no privacy any more"

is probably what those pesky Andromedians are saying.

6 hours of RGB wideband from last night - redcat 200pds  and asi2600.

I was going to shoot some Ha for it too, and maybe I still will, but to be honest, Im not sure it needs it ?

stu

and magenta removed (kinda prefer it with it if I'm honest):

Edited September 10, 2023 by powerlord

[ollypenrice]

Nice. Is that the full field at 250mm FL on the 2600 chip? It seems much more restricted than I'd have expected.

Olly

[powerlord]

yup, other than a wee crop around - slightly more crop on left but not much,.

[powerlord]

hold on, what the hell am I talking about. that was shot on my 200pds!!!

I was shooting sh2-126 on the redcat! which also explains why my sh2-126 was looking terrible as I've used the flats from the 200pds!!

I'll update post. thanks Olly - duh.

[powerlord]

yeh, so... I'll reprocess this as I used flats from the redcat on it. I did realise at the time, the flats hadn't really worked here, but as there was lots of sensor mist in the morning since I'd forgot to switch anti-dew on AGAIN, I figured it was just that - some of the subs must have had a bit of mist - so just worked harder to extract the background. However in so doing, now that I've reintegrated it with the RIGHT flats, I can see i've stripped off the faintest bits in the process... so I'll update once it's redone

[powerlord]

Well, processed with the CORRECT flats, I think you'll agree, this is a tiny wee bit better... definitely the deepest M31 I've managed so far. I'm pretty happy with that. 😃

I've purposefully dialled back my use of noiseX here as there's such a lot of tiny fine detail, removing more of the noise was hurting those fine details.

Here's a weird looking wee galaxy. I looked it up on NOMAD but not much there about it:

[Graeme]

That's a lovely image.

I did the M31 core recently but yours, to the side and including M32 is a much nicer composition.

Graeme

[powerlord]

Thanks Graeme, I think I'll get around to doing the other half too. It'll make a good mosaic, but also I think, make a good 2 photo composition for printing/framing, and there's enough detail there to take a fair size print I think.

stu