M108

[Ken Crawford]

Hello,

At first I thought this was a boring galaxy until I started digging out the details. I also found out it harbors a super massive black hole 24 million times the mass of the sun and a HI super bubble found by X-ray observations.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/M108/M108.htm

Anyway, I could not find very many deep images of this on the web. Enjoy the background galaxies as they are pretty interesting also.

Kindest Regards,

[multiweb]

Beautiful shot with great colors. Amazing details in the background faint fuzzies too. :thumbsup:

[Hagar]

I Can only reiterate Marc's comments on this magnificent image.

[TrevorW]

Another fine image Ken love the colours

[David Fitz-Henr]

Great image Ken - lots of good detail!! The backgound galaxies certainly add a very interesting backdrop too!!

[Ken Crawford]

Thanks for the kind words, this was a tuff galaxy to process and I have no less than 3 different decon strengths and lots of detail digging time in this thing. There are outflows the Chandra found that really do some distruption.

[Alchemy]

Sounds pretty good, only I can't see the picture. Using an iPad some webpages containing images don't load properly...... Yours is one of them and I have no idea why.

[SkyViking]

What a great image! And there's certainly a lot to look at in the background too. It's an interesting galaxy with lots of HII regions and blue supergiants. You have brought out the details very well. Thanks for sharing another top shot!
The colours are beautiful - but perhaps a tad too saturated just on the galaxy itself, for me it looks almost turquoise - could be my monitor though?

[Troy]

Nice picture ken.
Great colours, processing and I like the little surprises in the background
:D

Troy

[strongmanmike]

That looks like NGC 253's "mini me" :P

Beautiful galaxy image Ken

Mike

[marc4darkskies]

Fantastic Ken! Makes me want to go after the "boring" objects just to see what kind of detail I can tease out of them!!

Cheers, Marcus

[Ken Crawford]

Apple does not like Flash and I use Zoomify and wrote much of my website in Flash. They do not show up on my ipod also, not sure if Apple will ever support flash but it is on 94% of all the computers out there. I believe you have to get a different browser app to see Flash . . .

[Ken Crawford]

You are correct that there is lots of green channel present in this galaxy mixing with the blue - I see it on my calibrated monitors. The last couple of years I started pushing color as far as I could and use color noise and detail blow out to judge if I had gone too far. Also I have not been binning my color for several years now as I have found much detail in the color channels and use them for synthetic Lum.

We are all competing with colorful and fantastic CGI (aka AVATAR). Color and contrast are major tools in getting our images noticed by the general public and I admit to trying to push it too the edge. I appeciate that you have noticed this.

We spend lots of time and money on this hobby what many of us do is really technical art. Sometimes the hardest thing is to find out what people think of my work, so I really mean it when I say the comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Sorry about rambling on :)

Regards,

[renormalised]

Another superb shot, Ken:)

[gregbradley]

A very well done image of an unusual galaxy. Perhaps not the most photogenic galaxy in the north but nice to see something different than
NGC7000's this time of year!

Greg.