M81

[p1taylor]

M81 27x300 seconds, imaged zs80ed sx h9c, guided rcx10" lodestar phd, maxim photoshop. all comments welcome

peter

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Nice Shot

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very tight guiding by the look of it. Nicely done.

[mill (Martin)]

Hi Peter.
On my monitor i see a mottled background with splotches of blue and brown.
Also there is a lot of noise.
Do you image from a very light polluted area? If so you might be better of getting shorter exposures but a bucket load of them.
For 27X300 seconds it doesn't look too good
Also there is no color in the stars and almost nothing in the galaxy.
Maybe it is just the processing, i don't know, the data is there and a Sidonio might bring it out better
PS: i am not a authority on processing so i might have it all wrong

[Hagar (Doug)]

Nice image Peter, Looks like a bit more exposure is required but you are capturing quite a bit of detail.

[Ross G]

Nice shot Peter.



Ross.

[p1taylor]

Thanks very much guys for your comments,

Martin I am not very good at processing but what is SIDONIO? never herd of it.

peter

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by p1taylor

Thanks very much guys for your comments,

Martin I am not very good at processing but what is SIDONIO? never herd of it.

peter

A "Sidonio" is our nickname for a reproduction of a previously rendered image. We named it after Mike Sidonio because he was always coming out with repro's of his piccies to make them look better than before

[p1taylor]

Thanks for info Carl.

peter