M81/82/UGC5336 HaLRGB

[ollypenrice]

The famous duo plus little pal. I want some Flux in this but that will have to wait for next month. This has 8 hours Lum, 3X105 mins binned colour and 3 Hrs Ha. Just over 16 hours seems an awful lot, somehow.

Oh well, it ain't over yet. I have tried to keep this natural since my galaxies mostly look over processed, I think.

Tec 140 on EM200, Atik 4000 mono. I would have had more Ha but the guiding was poor on Dec. Turned out the TEC had slid down the tube rings a bit and was well out of balance. Oooops.

Olly

[msinclairinork]

Great images Olly!

Love the crop of M81, colours are excelent!

Michael

[MikeD]

looking real nice Olly.

Mike

[dc509]

Beautiful!

[rich_t]

Excellent details in the galaxies Olly, M81 lots particularly nice.

Cheers,

Rich.

[Starflyer]

Cracking image Olly, I do like the natural sharpness of the processing.

[prokyon]

Wow, takes my breath away! Great result!!!

Cheers

Werner

[Erwin Kats]

nice image olly !

i will send you some pictures soon from our visit

[Hawklord]

Georgeous galaxies Olly. Really nicely done.

[old_eyes]

Lovely image Olly, really beautiful.

Is there more of the characteristic 'splatter' from the core of M82 in the data? You often see it in images, but I am not sure whether it is H-alpha or not.

old_eyes

[ollypenrice]

Lovely image Olly, really beautiful.

Is there more of the characteristic 'splatter' from the core of M82 in the data? You often see it in images, but I am not sure whether it is H-alpha or not.

old_eyes

I was expecting more myself. It is predominantly Ha so I think all that has happened here is that the luminance is too strong for the Ha at the moment. I will just get more Ha and see what that gives.

Olly

[Boren]

Very nice Olly.

I don't think they look overprocessed. I love the zoom in!

Cheers,

Harel

[saturn5]

Beauties,terrific colour and details.

[tiwar]

Stunning!!

T x

[MartinB]

The flux is starting to show Olly. Looking really good. It so happens that I had a clear sky last night with a fair bit of moon so decided to collect some Ha for this pair using my MN190 - 11x20mins so thought I'd add it into the mix. A bit rough and ready on the jpegs of course.

[Catanonia]

Top drawer images Olly and well processed. Nicely framed, they are always bigger than you think and the separation between then is a lot less than you think.

[ollypenrice]

The flux is starting to show Olly. Looking really good. It so happens that I had a clear sky last night with a fair bit of moon so decided to collect some Ha for this pair using my MN190 - 11x20mins so thought I'd add it into the mix. A bit rough and ready on the jpegs of course.

Thanks Martin, that's great. Clearly my own Ha wasn't strong enough to show over the Luminance so I will certainly give this image a lot more exposure.

Olly

[cloudbuster]

stunning images Olly...well done!