Another M97

[markarian]

I see Shibby did M97 last night too

This is the first time I've seen it - never managed to catch it visually before. Always found it very hard to find. EQMOD and CdC found it for me:D

200P, 350D, Astronomik CLS, MPCC

10x180s, 5x240s, ISO 800, darks

Guided w/Guidemaster, captured with APT

Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop CS5

Mark

[peter shah]

a lovely shot with good colour...the only thing i would say is the black point is clipped a little too hard

[markarian]

Thanks Peter.

I think you may be right about the clipping - but that was probably to hide the noise. Could do with quite a few more subs to reduce that.

I'm also always fighting colour balance because of the CLS filter - trying to hide the cyan halos around the brighter stars.

I might give it another go.

Mark

[Shibby]

Nice one mark, yours is better than mine You've captured the "redness" around the edge which I couldn't find in my data.

[markarian]

Thanks Lewis. Took me ages to get the colour to come out.

[MartinB]

Nice detail in the neb