m51 mono

[red dwalf]

here is my joint effort with Gliders help, and also Ibbo for finding it for us ! for some reason we couldn`t get the mount to find the target which was very annoying, this is just 2 stacked, 5 minute images, we have 20 but my processing is appalling.

now 9 stacked images with darks, getting there.

and the last one now we`ve managed to get deep sky stacker working properly

[philj]

Top notch Rob, loads of the fainter whispy stuff coming through there. I like it.

It is a big galaxy on the DSI chip through the SCT you only have to be a little off in pointing and youve missed it.

Philj

[rfdesigner]

You're just getting the side on galaxy in the background.. so there's some depth there.

What are you using to process?

Derek

[red dwalf]

i`m using deep sky stacker to stack with some problems, it keeps coming up with errors and shutting down, i did alittle processing with registax in the second image as my pc had to be reinstalled with windows and i lost photoshop cs3, when i have it back i`ll be able to do more i hope

[Glider]

Wow, good job after all the struggle we had to find the thing.

Have you had a crack at the M13 data aswell?

[Doc]

Nice one Rob, the extra frames in the second one really goes deeper with alot more stars.

[red dwalf]

thanks not bad for only 8 darks and 8 lights in the second image, when i can find out whats playing up with dss i`ll try to stack more.

not had a chance to get the darks for M13 yet Noel will try later,

one question i wanted to ask you, do i need to get 20 separate darks for M51 ? i did this but it was a right bother, the meade software just wants to get a average or if i ask for 20 singles it overwrites the previous file, i had to get one at a time and then rename them

[Doc]

You should get as many darks as you did lights I think.

[Glider]

You need to get 20 separate images the same way we got the lights; FITS, save all uncombined images. Then median combine them to get 1 master dark.

[red dwalf]

cheers i`ll have a go

[red dwalf]

how do i median combine them to make a master dark ?

[oshb5]

Very nice shot Rob and Noel And to say only that many photos ued so far. the final one should be stunning?

[Glider]

DSS 3.3.3 beta 34 took all 20 lights for me. Try it with your darks included aswell.