Bad M33 from Astrofest 2013

[h0ughy]

this would have to be one off the worst images I have from astrofest. nowhere near long enough, lack of detail and the guiding gave me eggy stars. I remember the night I got this and I was having no end of problems with the mount and PHD, no I found out the mounts firmware had a bug - so has my image. its lack of detail and crispness, no spiral arms, no Ha regions - ah the list go on. Oh how I envy Peters M33 ;0:help:

this target deserves more respect, but I am posting to show the image I got

weapon of photon destruction - celestron nightscape ccd OSC ,hyperstar3 and Celestron C11 on a eq8 - stacked in Astrofx, processed in Pixinsight then cropped in PS and saved to ruin your vision for here

[Lee]

That doesn't look too bad to me Dave, you've resolved details in the arms.... needs some more contrast??

[h0ughy]

its blurred sue to the movement, and no where near enough signal Lee, might try the extra contrast?

[strongmanmike]

:lol:...nah it's not that bad ;) Man, with the new kit you were trying to master in the field, sheesh, I take my hat of mate :thumbsup:

Mike

[RB]

I disagree mate, there's quite a bit of detail hidden in there.
Had a quick play with PS Elements (hate using that program) because I haven't got access to my usual computer atm.

:)

[h0ughy]

:rofl: that kid looks like he is passing an opinion mike;):lol:

it was exactly 12 months since I did any deep sky stuff, and yes I had new gear but I should have been able to get something better than that