M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy

[ashworthacca]

Last night I managed to get out for an hour or so before the clouds rolled in so had an attempt at M101. This was taken with my Canon 1000d, 8 lights and 2 darks, 600secs at ISO800. I think it was guided, I say that because I'm not convinced. I'll come back to this later.

Anyway, here is the image which I hope to add at least another couple of hours to.

M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy by ashworthacca, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.

[Demonperformer]

Nice start ... look forward to seeing it as you add more data

[Psychobilly]

M101 really eats up imaging time but its well worth it... Nice FOV and a good start... Have a look at the free Hasta LA Vista Green Plugin for photoshop...

Peter...

[ashworthacca]

M101 really eats up imaging time but its well worth it... Nice FOV and a good start... Have a look at the free Hasta LA Vista Green Plugin for photoshop...

Peter...

You recommended this to me before but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called......I'll download it now and run the image through it.

Thanks Peter:D

[ashworthacca]

Nice start ... look forward to seeing it as you add more data

Thanks:)

[ashworthacca]

Here it is after running the Hasta La Vista Green Plugin:)

M101 DSS post PS HLVG by ashworthacca, on Flickr

[steppenwolf]

This is a very nice image indeed - love the field of view.

[ashworthacca]

This is a very nice image indeed - love the field of view.

Thanks Steve, I'm not really confident in my processing skills but nice comments make it worthwhile.

[SlipperySquid]

Hiya martin I tried getting a few subs of this in Salisbury, only managed 3 and my battery ran out on the camera, I was using 5 min subs and got any hardly detail! don't know how long it will take for me to make a decent image but yours is coming along nicely sir!

[ashworthacca]

Hiya martin I tried getting a few subs of this in Salisbury, only managed 3 and my battery ran out on the camera, I was using 5 min subs and got any hardly detail! don't know how long it will take for me to make a decent image but yours is coming along nicely sir!

I reckon I'm going to need another couple of hours at least with this so hoping for some more clear nights. I don't use a battery in my camera, use a power adapter that I got from Astronomiser that runs off my Leisure Battery.

Good luck with your image and lets have a look when you have a bit more to play with.

[ashworthacca]

I've been trying to get a little more detail out of this (more for the processing practice than anything else), have I gone too far or is it an improvement?

M101 DSS post PS HLVG-Edit by ashworthacca, on Flickr