M101 after the party

[Tim]

It was a shame to leave SGL6 on sunday morning with a full clear night on the cards, but I was able to re-instate power and cables etc to my little obsy and get set up.

This was my second target of the night, and comprises of 13 x 600 seconds through the MN190 and a OSC camera. Haven't had time for darks flats or bias and it shows

Thanks for looking.

Tim

[James]

Oh strewth... James quietly files away his effort (afflicted by horrendous noise!).

I'm impressed you were able to get home and set up again, I wasn't

James

[rich_t]

Lovely details around the core, will be nice to see how it improves with calibration files added.

Rich.

[MG1]

Wow Tim that's superb...love the colours around the core and the shadows in the arms...nice one!

[barkis]

Your seemingly back into your imaging mode Tim.

Lovely job.

MartinB. was giving his LRGB tutorial in the Marquee near the Shower block. I was on my way there and stopped to take in his excellent talk. He was using M101 subs, and he stated he preferred the core of this galaxy to have a warm golden glow.

I think maybe you and he may think along parallel lines, as this image has the glow too.

Ron.

[ollypenrice]

I'd like more of a golden glow in my own M101 core but wasn't there to hear Martin's method!

Tim, I thnk this is lacking blue in the balance. Red core, yes, but not so much the arms for me. But you have a lot of image here and when calibrated I think it will sing like Pavarotti...

Olly

[Zakalwe]

Beautiful image.

When I see pics like this I wonder why I bother. I've over 3.5 hours on my little rig, and it's not a tenth of this picture.

[russ]

Lovely image Tim. The colour is amazing.

[Vega]

Wonderful image. I expect plenty more will start flooding in from SGL6 :-)

Matt

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Really nice image. Am I right in judging there is a small, side-on, lenticular galaxy on the left-hand side (just below and to the left of the bright star left of M101)?

[Wobbly Bob]

Thats a good'n Tim, lovely colour. When we got home just before 12pm the sky was fantastic, BUT I was to wacked to do anything about it, old age you see.

[Keiran]

Wow, that is stunning great job tim... Some people make it look so easy lol

[nightfisher]

lovely image

[Tim]

Really nice image. Am I right in judging there is a small, side-on, lenticular galaxy on the left-hand side (just below and to the left of the bright star left of M101)?

Thanks. Yes I think so, in the full size tiff image there are loads of faint fuzzies around this one, I have just gathered another few hours of subs in 20 min increments so i'll add those into the mix and then try to upload a better version somewhere.

Cheers

[Adz]

Jawdropping image, well done its great! I am interested to hear about those other fussies you mention like the intriguing one on the left!