M31 05/08/10

[Glider]

30 off 2min lights, 20 off 2 min darks, using my new ED80, really just intending to check things out than create a masterpiece, still, managed to get some dust lanes.

[ashworthacca]

I like that, very nice and yes nice dust lanes. Great stuff.

[Doc]

I see your new scope works just fine. You caught M32 and M110 as well.

[mark7331]

I have to say Cor! Very nice.

[cardconvict]

very nice i have just purchased a ed80 as well

[qcdougn]

Glider,

Nice Image.......Since it's raining here & no astronomy tonight for me...I had a play with your nice pic...Only did a gradient removal and a little sharpening.

Cheers,

Doug

[Glider]

qcdougn, what did you use to do the processing?

[qcdougn]

Good Morning Glider from Georgia-USA,

I had one more play with your pic this morning while drinking my cup of coffee and looking at the cloud cover here.

What I did first was use an older version 6 of Photo Shop. With PS6 I also have an add-on tool application by Noel Carboni (Astronomy Actions). I used the "Remove Soft Gradient- red". This took out some of the reddish background. Then I brighten and ddjusted the Levels and Curves. Finally I sharped with Neat Image (Free Program) and enlarged with the Resize feature in MaxIM DL.

I hope you like the changes....Keep up the good work on your imaging skills....It takes a while to climb the processing curve too.

Cheers,

Doug Neal

[Cloudwatcher]

A promising result with the new scope,you must be please.

Your posted image is a bit small to work with but like Doug I have a bit of time on my hands so had a bash at enhancement in Photoshop...... not the best of results but here it is anyway.

P.S. Sorry,forgot to flip the image before attaching.

[qcdougn]

Very nice re-work CW......Glider should like that very much.

Doug

[spike87]

Wow! That is an amazing shot. Galaxy shots always amaze me the most.

[Glider]

Thanks Cloudwatcher, that really has cleaned up nicely.

[saturn5]

Great dust lanes.