another clear night M101

[peter shah]

Another clear night here in Mid Wales i cant believe my luck ....i managed to get this before the moon came out

taken with the AG12 exposure times were 5x530s in Blue, 5x420s in Green, 5x600s in Red and 6x900s in Luminance.

click link for full res full field http://twitpic.com/4cpwnh/full

thanks for looking

[gfletcher]

Just superb Peter

Graham

[RogerTheDodger]

Beautiful image Peter.

[TakMan]

Wow Peter!

And for such a small amount of time spent on it.... so another WOW just for that too.....

Damian

[Yoddha]

Masterpiece! The full-res image show a tons of small galaxies!

[swag72]

That is beautiful - I've just looked at your website too, and your pics are awesome. Thank you!

[Vega]

One word... Beautiful

Matt

[peter shah]

Thanks everyone....i have to admit i wasnt expecting much from M101, its quite a difficult one to show any detail.....i was pleasantly surprised

[MikeD]

Stunning Peter.

The fine dust lane detail right to the core is wonderful, and you have got great Ha responce without dedicated Ha data.

Mike.

[Coco]

V.nice indeed..... looking forward to maybe May when its right out of the LP... you will nail it then

[Hypernova]

An excellent image once again, well done

A mass of detail in the structure of the galaxy and also really deep, everywhere you looks there are dozens and dozens of obscure fuzzies hiding in the background.

P.S. Have you noticed the periodic flaring satellite in the top right-hand corner of the image?

P.P.S. I have just set this image as my desktop background.

[Luke]

Breathtaking full res, Peter, thanks for linking to the full res! I love the colours of the galaxies and the stars, love seeing the other galaxies in the background.

[Doug]

Hi Peter

That is beautiful, so much detail

Doug

Essex

[MikeWilson]

Wow Peter, that's gorgeous!

[elbatchman]

wow, that is awesome...

[peter shah]

many thanks everyone...as i wasnt expecting much from M101 i haven had much luck with it in the past....im very pleased with the result

Have you noticed the periodic flaring satellite in the top right-hand corner of the image?

not noticed that

[peter shah]

Stunning Peter.

The fine dust lane detail right to the core is wonderful, and you have got great Ha responce without dedicated Ha data.

Mike.

That did surprise me Mike the way the HII regions just popped out in this shot without any H-alpha frames

[SlipperySquid]

Really nice image Pete! What's next for the 12" beast

[RobH]

Top notch Peter!

I always seem to have a pig of a job getting colour data for this target....not so much the red, but the green and blue certainly.

Cheers

Rob

[johnh]

M101 shows a lovely core and HII regions very fine detail.

John.

[peter shah]

thanks guys

Really nice image Pete! What's next for the 12" beast

duno was thinking about M94 trying to capture that faint outer ring.....i still remeber Rob's silly exposure version...i would love to get something close to that bad boy, but it would need a lot of work to get close!

[laser_jock99]

Masterpiece! The full-res image show a tons of small galaxies!

Agreed- stunning main image but all the small background galaxies are equally amazing. Another wonderfull image Peter.

[ollypenrice]

Yep, masterly colour as always, both in the stars and the galaxy. Like Rob I found the colour hard - or, rather, impossible since I never got it right!

Olly

[RobH]

thanks guys

duno was thinking about M94 trying to capture that faint outer ring.....i still remeber Rob's silly exposure version...i would love to get something close to that bad boy, but it would need a lot of work to get close!

I don't know about that Peter....remember that I needed to spend ages on it bacause I have a 6 inch scope.....yours is more than 16 times as fast, being below F4 and a 12 inch, so you should be able to do a great job on it

[johnh]

I agree that ring around m94 would be easier at that size and speed with the AG12 and no need for Ha with M94 and the area is littered with background galaxies.

John.