M45 - From New Mexico

[pvelez]

Another M45 - this one was taken using the iTelescope service.

About 1 hour each of RGB and 2 hours of Lum. Taken with a Tak FSQ106 and STL11000.

For some reason there is nasty blooming in G and some less severe blooming in B. I used the Star Halo Reducer script in PI to remove them. There also were some nasty white pixels in the flat used for calibration of the Lum - I had a go at Cosmetic Correction which removed most but not all of the black spots in the finished image.

Comments welcome

Pete

[strongmanmike]

That's a beauty Pete, nice use of remote hardware there and nicely processed , love the blue :thumbsup:

Mike

[RickS]

Very nice, Pete. Shame the calibration files weren't better.

[RB]

Very nice Pete, colours look great.

:thumbsup:
Andrew

[Paul Haese]

Nice colours and great field of view.

[Ross G]

Looks good Pete.

Great colour.

Ross.

[pvelez]

Thanks for your comments guys.

It's dangerous seeing what a difference a remote site can make. A move to the bush is likely to be expensive.

Pete