Negative Galaxy Images

[gregbradley]

Seeing Mike's interesting negatives on Galaxies and how they reveal faint
tidal streams I thought I'd do the same.

Here is a gallery of several of my recent galaxy images in negative.

A few of them show extra tidal streams not easily seen in the colour image.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/negative_galaxy_images

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Gee, don't they look Hale'esque :eyepop:love the powerful image scale look. I try to kid myself that a 1300mmFL 6" is all that's really needed and push it to the limits to prove it :lol: buuuut..?..bollocks ;) I, like anyone else, would give my left..?..ear?...to have your scope Greg.

There is so much more to see than a single perfect saturated pretty picture :thumbsup:

I would have desaturated these first and then made them negative and pushed'em, but that's just me.

Mike

[gregbradley]

They are reminiscent of older style astro photos. And they do pick up the tidal streams a lot better than colour does. Galaxies are way larger than our images depict but I suppose those outer fringes are too dull to register easily.

Good tip. I didn't notice they had some colour left as they looked black and white in PS. These are pushed using levels. Curves works a bit in reverse in small amounts but levels seems to be the tool to bring them up.

Greg.