TerryMcK Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) Here is the work in progress on M81 and M82. Essentially I did SHO on the M81 the other night as I still had the mono camera on and just set it off to see what sort of Ha is in Bode's I processed it an found some outlying regions which are probably hives of activity. Then I replaced the camera with the OSC colour camera, same scale and pixel size, to add some RGB. Then I noticed the camera was rotated from the original image and also picked up M82 The Cigar but was too far over in the left hand side of the frame for my liking. So last night I added M82 to the mosaic. Next I did some processing on the whole lot in PixInsight using some mosaic techniques I picked up from a course with Warren Keller and ROn Brecher which I attended in a virtual session the other day. This is a snapshot of my PI workspace. Mosaic processing is quite easy once you get your head around it. Edited April 25, 2021 by TerryMcK Title change 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TerryMcK Posted April 23, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) Here is an almost finished piccy. I need to tidy some gradients yet. And another one with the gradient removed. This time renamed as Have A Cigar which one is Pink - thanks @paulgrover68😉 Edited April 25, 2021 by TerryMcK updated the image 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgrover68 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Great capture - this is one my favourite pairings. Especaillay impressed by the detail in Bodes. Oh and by the way, which one is Pink? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraic M Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Ha is shining out nicely in 81 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Very nice 👍👍👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob-c Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Lovely pic👍 Bob. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 Thanks everybody. I am adding some more to both galaxies. Last night I did another few hours on M81 and tonight I will do more on M82. I want to get more detail in M81 as I know there is some faintness I have not yet brought out. I removed the gradient by removing the stars then selective masking of each galaxy and darkening the background. I've updated the image in the earlier post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabs Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Just for the title of the post you deserve an huge well done and of course a shake of hand... obv great image indeed!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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