Leo Triplet

[martin_h]

Imaged over 4 nights and put together last night (are they ever finished?)

Lum = 2.5 hrs in 15 min subs

RGB = 2 hrs each in 10 min subs

Scope - ED100 + QHY9 + Nebulosity 2

Guiding - ST80 + QHY5 + PHD

Stacked in DSS and processed in CS3

[Yidoboy]

That's superb!. Brilliant detail. I can't wait until I can upgrade my kit to get pictures like that! Oh and the expertise to use it......

[Rob_Jn]

Superb image Martin, nice detail in the galaxies especially NGC3628. Well done.

Rob

[Doug]

Hi Martin

lovely Image and Im with Rob_Jn, NGC 3628 nice Detail

Doug

Essex

[martin_h]

Hi Martin

lovely Image and Im with Rob_Jn, NGC 3628 nice Detail

Doug

Essex

A lot of jiggery-pokery went on to get the detail. After the usual processing I had a humumgus gradient in the bottom left of the image, I tried a different flat but it made no difference. But by removing the gradient in software I was clipping the black a bit and loosing fine detail in the edges of the galaxies, so I made a copy and removed the gradient, layer masked it over the original and "painted" the galaxies through, then used a load of gaussian blur to blend the edges in.

[prokyon]

Very nice! You have a little gradient in the field. To remove it would make the image almost perfect.

Cheers

Werner

[Mikea]

Blinkin' awesome!

[m_j_lyons]

very nicely done - and the artist is always his own worst critic - so no, you're never really done.