M51

[Parallax]

I imaged this a few nights back and have been faffing around trying to get the colours right. For some reason the Red wasn't as strong as the Green & Blue. I took the Red first so M51 was lower in the sky than when I took the G & B, so maybe that was it?

Subs: L=15 x 300s, R,G & B=15 x 360s each

Imaging: C80ED, Atik 16 ICs, Maxim

Guiding: ST80, QHY5, Maxim

Processing: Combined in Maxim, post processed in PS CS

Steve

[gary1968]

OOOO that is nice, way better than my effort for earlier this week. ant wait till the adaptor comes to fit my camera etc to my C80ed.

Thanks for sharing,

Gary