M64- black eye Galaxy

[Garyh]

Hi folks,
Have been enjoying some nice dark skies with reasonable seeing on and off the last week or so :)
Here is my effort of M64 the black eye galaxy. This is the first time I have imaged this and I am quiet impressed with how it came out. Was a real cold night with a nice coating of frost on the ROR observatory so noise was very low in the subs.
Image is 12 x 6 min at iso 800 with the usual dark frames (5) taken with my 300D and 6" newtonian. Guiding was done with my Toucam and a old 70mm achro. Stacked in DSS then done some deconvolution in PixInsight and some noise reduction using a luminance mask (thanks Dietz :thumbsup:)
Finished of in Ps with levels curves etc.
Image is a 100% crop from the original.
Hopefully its going to be clear again tonight so I can hunt down some more fuzzies...:thumbsup:
All comments most welcome..:)
cheers Gary

[Zuts]

Hi Gary,

Thats a very nice result. My only comment is that it looks overly smooth, maybe? Nice colour though. Its amazing what results you can get with a 300D and a 6 inch Newt; galaxies, who would have thunk it :thumbsup:

Paul

[Ric]

Very nice indeed Gary, there is a great level of detail in your image and the dark dust lane stands out perfectly.

A top job.

[tornado33]

Great shot there, plenty of detail
Scott

[jase]

Magnificent work Gary. The central dust lane provides a bold exclamation mark - certain eye catching (no pun intended). Looks like there maybe some more data hidden there, but may introduce noise if pushed to hard. Well done.

[Dennis]

Top stuff Gary, a wonderful portrait expertly processed.

Cheers

Dennis

[Inmykombi]

Beautiful image. I have only ever seen this galaxy through a huge scope ( not mine ) and you have captured the detail very very well.

Keep up the good work.

[EzyStyles]

I like it gary. nice blackeye there. might be slightly abit purplish. The guiding and details are great from that 6" scope!.

[marc4darkskies]

Way cool Gary! :thumbsup: Good detail - nice job!

Cheers, Marcus

[renormalised]

Maybe after Gary's rendition of the galaxy, we should change its name to the "Peeping Tom" Galaxy.... since it has a black and purplish blue colouration:D

[bluescope]

Looks great Gary !

:thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Thanks everyone for commenting and looking! :thumbsup:
You might be right there Eric! it does look a little magenta..
Maybe its a old blackeye guys...lol :)
cheers
more galaxies comin soon
CS Gary

[leon]

Agreed, with the other fine people, a very nice image indeed, quite some detail in there.

Leon

[Alchemy]

a very nice image gary, glad youve got some nice skies up there.
youre still setting a high standard there:thumbsup:

[Tamtarn]

An excellent image Gary, you have certainly brought out some great detail.
A really good result for your efforts.