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M31: my first image

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cloudbuster

cloudbuster

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Mornin All:hello2:

Hope you all had a good night's observing & imaging:)

With help from my mate james (in locating the target), i managed to photograph M31 for the first time last night...please let me know what you think.

18.6.10 1st attempt at imaging M31

Skywatcher Equinox 66

Canon 300d

800 asa

21 subs 60 seconds

21 subs 90 seconds

12 subs 120 seconds

1 sub 150 seconds

21 darks 60 seconds

21 darks 90 seconds

55 bias 1/4000th sec

stacked in DSS

Processed in photoshop 6 & Pixinsight

cheers

bob:icon_salut:

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billinforres

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Hi Bob,

I'm not a deep sky imager so I can only dream of producing something like that.

I've been using Photoshop for a few years and I had a fiddle with your image, hope you don't mind and I hope I am not breaking any SGL taboos by posting what I have done.

Somebody please tell me if I am!!

I had a fiddle with curves, levels and despeckle and this is what came out.

From the lightness of your image, I wonder if you have your monitor set correctly. You should be able to see every square in step.gif which I'll attach.

Hope I haven't offended you with fiddling with your image,

Bill

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Psychobilly

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Hi

If you had a go with pixinsight , A little more work with the DBE tool to get rid of the gradients and perhapes a go with the HDR wavlets to reavel the core :)

Harry

Then in 45 days time when your hooked and your trial license has expired.. and you have started to develop the shakes and sweats you just have cough up 198.36 eruros... :icon_scratch:

Billy...

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red dwalf

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very nice effort indeed, makes me think again about buy a 1000d,

just wish i understood how to process the images,

also do you need to take 21 dark frames at the same time length ? can`t you just do one at each time period and then use it lots of times ?

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cloudbuster

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Yes Red Dwalf, as far as i know you need to take 21 dark frames at the same time length. :)

very nice effort indeed, makes me think again about buy a 1000d,

just wish i understood how to process the images,

also do you need to take 21 dark frames at the same time length ? can`t you just do one at each time period and then use it lots of times ?

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cloudbuster

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Good grief....is that really the price???!!!:):eek::icon_scratch:

Then in 45 days time when your hooked and your trial license has expired.. and you have started to develop the shakes and sweats you just have cough up 198.36 eruros... :mad:

Billy...

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