A strange Galaxy ...

[Leonardo70]

M94 is a Starburst Galaxy in Canes Venatici.
Difficult to process due to the huge differences between core light and external ring.
A good series of night helped me to catch acceptable light:
http://www.starkeeper.it/M94.htm

I hope you'll find it interesting.

Thanks for looking and all the best,
Leo

[Geoff45]

Wow, that's amazing. Hard to believe that there are such objects out there. Very nicely done Leonardo

[Tony_]

Yes - amazing. Beautiful image!!

[Paul Haese]

Incredible detail in the core Leo. Colour saturation is close to what I would call fluro but still has an impact to the overall look of the image.

Is there an outer ring? In the corners there appears to be some dust rings. Are these processing artefacts or is this an actual part of the galaxy? I wonder if you have captured something quite different.

Just out of interest I would be interested in your thoughts on using an AO over not using one?

[Leonardo70]

Saturation is done high for evidence the internal arms usually unseen in other images. In the corner there's reflection from the Street lamps that enter in the telescope. I shot with 3 lamps at 20 mt. My sky is around 19.9 / 21.1 depends on who turn on the lights ;)

For the AO .. i'm using it because i can catch the same details than the Others AP using bigger scope . When it work , for sure :hi:

All the best,
Leo

[strongmanmike]

Well that's a rather pretty galaxy Leo, almost looks like a planetary nebula :eyepop: Great details in the central regions, a lovely portrait :thumbsup:

Although they are relatively minor, those rings in the corners of the image do look like gradient removal artifacts..?

Mike

[gregbradley]

Very nice Leo.

Greg.

[jase]

Uber detail Leo. You sure this is a ground based 10" RC. While I'm all for embracing colour to emphasise detail, the level of saturation and abruptness I find distracting. I'd probably tone it down a little but you're the one that needs to be happy with it. Good job.

[Leonardo70]

Thanks

@Mike : the LP from Street lamps cause reflections inside that interacting with the draw tube of focuser (manually shorten some years ago) probably it lost black paint cover, i think to construction of portable shield. The flat overcorrect them. I can crop but my equipment and my sky this is ... i prefer to look to object contents.

@Jase : yes is ground based. Is the second time in 7 years i had such wonderful seeing (for me) in this condition AO work so fine. Saturation, probably i'll go backward on central part.

Thanks again to all for dedicated some of your time to see and comment.

All the best,
Leo

[RickS]

Lovely image, Leo! The saturated blue is just a little bit much for me too but the detail and overall impact is fantastic.

Looking forward to what you can do with the data from SRO once we're up and running there.

Cheers,
Rick.

[cometcatcher]

An amazing image!

[SpaceNoob]

Far out! A strange galaxy indeed, but an awesome image!

[astronobob]

Mighty nice target there Leo, really like your work & I like the color contrast which helps identify the galaxy & arms amongst the whole show :thumbsup:

[Jerry_Lodriguss]

Stunningly beautiful!

jerry

[Placidus]

Leo, the sharpness of the detail in the inner starburst ring and within that, the dust lanes spiralling into the very core is magnificent. Well done.

[Leonardo70]

Thanks to all ! :)

@Rick: a lot of money for me but i hope worth the effort. I'm happy if i can take more than usually 5/6 images i taken with my RC on one year.

All the best,
Leo

[marco]

:bowdown:

I believe this is the best rendition I have ever seen of this galaxy Leo, almost Hubble details..

Hat off my friend, one of your best images and a great addition to an already fantastic collection of pictures!

Marco

[Ross G]

What an amazing object Leo!

A beautiful galaxy photo.

I love the detail and the strong colours.

Ross.

[Leonardo70]

Marco and Ross, thank you !

@Marco: great words from you ... honoured !!!

All the best,
Leo

[Nicola]

Leo, excellent rendition of the core, this image deserves the APOD ;)

[alpal]

And it did get an APOD 3 days ago:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150526.html


Well deserved.

cheers
Allan

[gregbradley]

Yes Congrats Leo. Your images continue to be inspiring and rich and colourful.

Greg.

[rustigsmed]

Congratulations Leo, a fantastic image.

[Leonardo70]

Allan, Greg and Russel ... thank you so much.
Rarely happen this to me ... so lucky, and happy.

All the best,
Leo

[marco]

I am late but better late than.. :)
Congratulation Leo, as I wrote a superb image and a very much deserved recognition :thumbsup:
Ciao
Marco

[Leonardo70]

Thank you so much Marco.

All the best,
Leo

[Stevec35]

Certainly an odd looking galaxy Leo and you have captured some amazing detail. Perhaps a little over saturated for my taste but an excellent image overall.

Cheers

Steve