work in progress M33

[peter shah]

had very patchy skies last night....managed a few frames...10mins in Green, 20 in blue, 30 in red and Luminance....every frame was hampered with cloud losing the guide star many times....seemed to only just be enough to pull out the colour. The luminance wasnt too bad but i know it could be better.

i will give another bash next clear skies

thanks for looking

[barkis]

This has been a popular target of late, and each one I've seen has been superb. Yours is the latest in the list Peter. A truly lovely job.

It looks so good, I cannot envisage what could be done to improve it.

Ron.

[skywatcher1701]

peter, that is a great image

[peter shah]

This has been a popular target of late, and each one I've seen has been superb. Yours is the latest in the list Peter. A truly lovely job.

It looks so good, I cannot envisage what could be done to improve it.

Ron.

thanks ....i had problems pulling out the colour without gradients....it needs lots more exposure to smooth it out and refine the detail........but you are right the AG8 is still pulling out surprises! this target is tricky, there is so much detail for such short exposures and a little scope!!

[Aza]

Thats a great start!

You manage to get very nice results with those short exposure times.

Are your skies very dark?

[TheThing]

I can't see nowt wrong with that! An excellent picture of a lovely subject.

[peter shah]

Thats a great start!

You manage to get very nice results with those short exposure times.

Are your skies very dark?

Pretty dark...just a bit of LP from the village about a mile away......its one reason why im pulling so much out of the data!!!.....but i have also changed the way i process, doing half a dozen darks right after the light frames, has made the biggest difference! and using a SD combined...plus i have got the scope very well polar alighned and collimated, so everything is so much tighter, it all helps with the signal/noise

[trevboyd]

Very nice, Peter - lovely sharp stars and great colour

Trev

[Deneb]

Great picture Peter, even with the short subs, I would like to see what your final version would be like.

[peter shah]

thanks everyone....M33 is really a nice object.....it has so many things to look at.....havent looked that close before

i cant wait to get this one finished

[Beyond_Vision]

A beautifully rich and colourful image Peter, it's such an intruiging galaxy but difficult to image as well as you have done.

Regards

Kevin

[RobH]

A fine image Peter, irrespective of the amount of subs,

More time on this and it will be superb

Cheers

Rob

[ASIGN_Baz]

By gee I wish that darned Eucalyptus tree in my neighbors front yard (north) would fall over...grrrr...

I really want to shoot this target, but the centre of Canberra is in my north and the afore-mentioned Gum tree.

Beautiful image and nice colours.

Baz.