M74 a first go!!!

[Garyh]

Hi all again...:thumbsup:,
Heres a image of M74 I took back in september. didn`t get around to processing to yesterday as it didn`t look very impressive on the camera and sort of got forgotten about.
Is a stack of 10 frames at 4 min at iso 1600, DF removed and stacked and processed in PS. Actually didn`t come out to bad considering I used 1600.
Will have to give it another go at a lower iso and more frames.
You can even just pick out a few little background fuzzies...
M74 must have a very low surface brightness for a messier object?
Cheers Gary

[Ric]

Thats a nice image image, the spiral arms have come out very nicely and the colours look quite good.

Nice job

[atalas]

Nice shot Gary.

[jase]

You've capture M74. You can clearly see the spiral arms. Nice work. Perhaps longer exposures with a lower ISO will really bring out the fine details. Well composed image none the less. Good work.:thumbsup:

hope you don't mind me working you image over.:)

[Garyh]

Thanks Ric, Louie and Jase,
No probs there jase, I do the same with some posts (but don`t tell anyone--lol). Yep lower iso and double the frames should give a nice image!
Had a quick look on the net and there is not many M74 shots around to compare it with and didn`t find any on IIS..shall look some more..
Cheers Gary

[jase]

http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d5/m74a.jpg


Just google it.:thumbsup:
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=M74&btnG=Search+Images