M31

[jjjnettie]

Here's first light from my new digs.
Had to work around the street light, yes a street light:eyepop:, I'm back in the burbs.
Still fairly dark though, you can see m31 naked eye and you can make out the Cygnus Rift, so that's not too bad I guess.;)
OK,
I used the TOT, Canon 20D and my Sigma 70-300mm lens set at 190mm and F4.5. (cheap as chips this lens $270 I think)
ICNR on.
I had to crop from the rhs of the image as there was/is a nasty smear on the glass that I didn't notice on setup.
Just over 52 minutes of data, 50 second subs.
Stacked in DSS
Processed in CS3

[TrevorW]

Nice one JJ

hope you don't mind

had a quick play with it in PS using a couple of action plug ins

[renormalised]

Nice shot Jeanette:D

[multiweb]

Great data. :thumbsup: I played a bit with your pic, hope you don't mind. :)
Got rid of the color gradient and increased the saturation a tad.

[Dennis]

Nice work JJJ – I’m surprised you managed to get out with all that smoke haze, not to mention the strong, gusty winds! Nice repro Marc!

Cheers

Dennis

[toryglen-boy]

Hope you dont mind but i ....


Nahh, i never touched it! nice image JJJ as per ... and a swanky new avatar as well !!


:thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

The image came out very green to start off with, so I had to play around with it a lot to get it looking natural.
So is the original image too light, too dark??
I'm not sure cause I'm working purely from the laptop.

Glad you had fun playing with the image.
Nice repros.

[[1ponders]]

Cracker of an image Jeanette :cool2:

[kinetic]

Jeanette, that is a sweet image!
You must be proud of that.

I'm yet to get an M31 I can be happy with,

Nice Job!:thumbsup:

Steve

[bokglob]

Classic shot jjj.Looks like you had a colour bias prob to start with (we get that here in the burbs)! try fixing this with levels in PS before colour balancing - it works a treat.

[jjjnettie]

Repro time.

[supernova1965]

You could always have an mishap with a air rifle or a slingshot "Streetlight what Streetlight.:lol::innocent:

[jjjnettie]

When I moved in last week the light wasn't working, I thought, woo hoo :D.
2 days ago they came along and replaced the bulb.:( I tried to bribe them, $5 if they don't fix it, but they just laughed at me.:lol:
But if I set up behind the house it doesn't matter too much. It's still quite dark where I am, on the edge of town. I overlook farmland and bush on 2 sides.

[DavidU]

Nice job on 31 jjj:thumbsup: Nice Sidonio too Marc.
The street light out the front is about to get a 12 foot pole with a 2foot square board "stuck up it" when the scope is out.
:P:D

[dpastern]

That's a decent shot Jeanette - excellent. Imagine how better it'd be with more data (*grins*, I'm bad for enticing you to get more data, aren't I?). Even better considering light pollution etc.

Marc's done a great job of reprocessing your image and getting the most out of it imho.

Dave

[jjjnettie]

Yes, he's done a great job on it. Wouldn't mind seeing what he can do with the raw data.

[multiweb]

Didn't do much jjj. One pass with gradient exterminator, one pass of very light noise reduction with noiseware professional, slightly raised the black point to increase contrast in levels, then curves, upped the red and blue channel just a tad and to finish 3 passes of saturation at 10% each time.