MarkAR Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Ok it's another Whirlpool Galaxy shot. Taken over a period of a couple of weeks at the beginning of April, I managed to get an integration of: Lum 58 x 180s Red 61 x 180s Green 60 x 180s Blue 59 x 180s Total time 11.9 hours Main reason for it taking a couple of weeks is that auto focus was playing silly beggars and Ekos kept quitting when left to run after I went to bed. Ended up ditching well over a hundred subs 😱 Looking close in I was surprised ant the number of tiny galaxies scattered around. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob-c Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Nice one. Bob. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmack1 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Thats a lovely image, nice subtle colours and great detail. You have really managed to bring out the faint "tails". Any tips on how to achieve that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyUkraine Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 25 minutes ago, Dmack1 said: Thats a lovely image, nice subtle colours and great detail. You have really managed to bring out the faint "tails". Any tips on how to achieve that? I took 8 hours of Lum data to capture the faint tails. They are barely visible in the RGB data. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter shah Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 wonderful image...lovey sympathetic process showing the faint extended regions 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted May 3, 2021 Author Share Posted May 3, 2021 23 hours ago, Dmack1 said: Thats a lovely image, nice subtle colours and great detail. You have really managed to bring out the faint "tails". Any tips on how to achieve that? Thanks mate, lots of exposure time and do not clip the black point. Making the background too dark loses the faint dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Nice M51 - must be my favourite galaxy though not very big. 👍👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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