NGC2997 in Antlia constellation

[billdan]

This is NGC2997 a small galaxy in the Antlia group, located 25 Million light years away and magnitude 10. Taken over 2 nights and about 7 hours of data.

Cheers
Bill

[DaveNZ]

Nice detailed image in a colourful star field.

[Placidus]

Very nicely done.

[Atmos]

Lovely and colourful area, looks like the galaxy has been nicely resolved.

[RickS]

Very nice, Bill. One small improvement would be to remove the bluish colour cast in the background.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Flugel88]

A little noisy but the detail and colour is all there very nice.
Stars look great too nice and round colour very natural.

[Ross G]

Another great looking galaxy photo Bill.

Sharp and detailed.

Ross.

[billdan]

Thanks very much for all your comments, image processing is a weak point of mine, I use Astroart v5 and I still haven't used all of the features that it has.

Rick, I deliberately pumped up the blue because the galaxy looked a bit green, but I agree it does have an annoying bluish background now.

Cheers
Bill

[strongmanmike]

Another great shot Bill, your gear looks to be performing rather well :thumbsup:

Do you only use AA5? I am using AA6 now and it has a few more features but I still need PS to do everything I need.

Mike

[alpal]

Hi Bill,
That's a good image.
I had a little play with it in Photoshop.
I hope you don't mind.
Does this look better?

cheers
Allan

[billdan]

Hi Allen,

That looks good mate, as 200Kb is not much to play with, I have created a dropbox account and here is the link to the 30Mb 16bit PNG file as it came out of Astroart 5.

So if anyone else wants to have a play with the data, go for it, you may be able to tweak more information than I did.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/cd59seu2rwso9hw/NGC2997%2029x900%2C%20dark%2C%20fla t%2C%20DDP.png?dl=0

Mike, I'm saving up the pennies for AA6.

Cheers
Bill

[Slawomir]

Very nice composition Bill :thumbsup:

[alpal]

Hi Bill,
I had another go with the larger file.
There is more detail & coloured stars
but the galaxy structure looks less defined.
What do you think?

cheers
Allan

[billdan]

Looks really good Allan, so much more colour in the stars compared to mine which are overcooked and turned white. I don't think you lost anything in the Galaxy structure, well I didn't notice any when blipping between the two.

I guess you did that in Photoshop is that right mate?

My son has gone back to Uni, so I'll see if he can get an Student version for me.

Regards
Bill

[alpal]

Thanks Bill,
yes I used Photoshop CS5.1 & also Fitswork4 just for a "make stars smaller" pass which was blended back in 50/50.
I think it still needs work -
the background has too much colour instead of being black.
It still needs fine tuning.
I will leave that to you now you know what Photoshop can do.
I recommend Louie's videos here to assist you:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ5b6pFHBGe66vsuSaXb-0A

I used lots of blurred layer masks.
I actually split the channels & had to add noise to the red & blue
amongst many other techniques.

cheers
Allan

[Decimus]

A beautiful jewel of an image, Bill - well done!

Cheers,
Richard

[Paul Haese]

Bill I like your image. Great colours and detail looks good from the size of the image.

[rustigsmed]

great capture Bill.

regards,

russ