Demon Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 (edited) There was no way at the time I was going to put this up (taken end of march) but thought its something different and still amazed I got on it (M81)... It is not cropped and I dont have goto. I did use plate solving and manual joystick to eventually get on it. Its taken with the 11.5" newt and ASI178mm (9mm diagonal). Sadly after ages getting on it I attempted lots of very short exposures (lucky imaging - not so lucky) - just wish I'd done longer exposures and I think it would have come out great - next time. 🙄 Edited June 24, 2022 by Demon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carastro Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 (edited) An amazing effort without GOTO, oin the whole it's a pretty good result. I hope you don;t mind but I did a bit of horizontal banding reduction/noise reduction and curves in Photoshop to try to improve the noise for you. Only slightly better. Carole Edited June 25, 2022 by Carastro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demon Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 (edited) Greatly appreciated thanks Carole. Definite improvement. I really need to get goto written in now that I've got plate solving working. With such a bucket it's just a sea of stars to try and star hop and takes ages. Can't wait to do this and other galaxies justice - up close. Never used to be into galaxies but finally finding what this rig was meant for. M81 and M82 are a favourite of mine as years ago at public viewing evenings I used to be able to find them straight away in my 4" SW ach and show people on my simple ra clock driven eq3/2 - was great. Edited June 26, 2022 by Demon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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