M83 from the doghouse howling in the moon

[h0ughy (David)]

I took this image last night, total time 3 hours and 18 minutes with the 127Ed, hotech Field flattener and the canon 350D. This is the first ever time I have taken this galaxy. (66 x 3 minute stacked in DSS)

A quick lunchtime process in Pixinsight – room for improvement and experiment but I think you get the general impression


the raw stacked image and then my first hack at that

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

You must be feeling pretty chuffed about that Dave.
You've done a beautiful job on it.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shot...quite a bit of detail, even with the rather wide FoV.

[kustard (Simon)]

That's really nice.

[DavidTrap (David)]

I think you've managed to pull the fat out of the fire there!

Well done!

DT

[tornado33]

That hotech field flattener works way better then any others, turns the 127ed into a high performance astrograph
Scott

[h0ughy (David)]

and to think that is with the moon still up. Thanks for the replies. Yes JJJ i am chuffed. Dont know about the astrograph tag Scott but i am finally getting a result - after all these years

[sheeny (Al)]

Looks really good, Dave!

Al.

[gregbradley]

All right Dude! Nice image. You've got to be happy with that one.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Oh yeah! Sharp as. I can hear you howling on this one all the way from Sydney

[kinetic (Steve)]

Nice job Dave.
I actually love FOVs like these where it hangs there like a jewel
in 3D. Sharpness is lovely. Colours lovely....beautiful.

Steve

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Good job Dave to extract that out of the original stack. The 127 is a great scope!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Nice job Dave the Magician

Mike

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by sheeny

Looks really good, Dave!

Al.

Thanks Al - the encouragement is welcomed

Originally Posted by gregbradley

All right Dude! Nice image. You've got to be happy with that one.

Greg.

That I am Greg - i will reprocess it or Sidonio it to death just to see how i can improve on it

Originally Posted by multiweb

Oh yeah! Sharp as. I can hear you howling on this one all the way from Sydney

i was - and you should have heard RB when he had a play with the raw Jpeg - he liked the data

Originally Posted by kinetic

Nice job Dave.
I actually love FOVs like these where it hangs there like a jewel
in 3D. Sharpness is lovely. Colours lovely....beautiful.

Steve

to be honest i had a bugger of a time locating it because i am pretty slack and have not really aligned or trained the scope with the Gemini to model the star locations - all i have done is sync Acrux and then hope for the best. when i did this i couldn't see where it was relative to star positions through the viewfinder - then i took a test image - was way out and then best guess adjustment. I jagged it

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Good job Dave to extract that out of the original stack. The 127 is a great scope!

Thanks Peter - its like magic - i never know what type of rabbit is in the hat

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice job Dave the Magician

Mike

Thank you of God of Photons for your blessing. I will say 3 Haley's comets and reprocess until its right

[Tilt (Michael)]

You've really got PixInsight working well for you Nice image David.

Michael

[David Fitz-Henr]

That's a superb image Dave - great detail and colour in the galaxy, and the foreground stars seem to give the whole image a 3-D feel to it!

[Prickly]

Hi David,

Thats a particularly nice effort. You seem to be onto a winner with the refractor.

Hope to see you at SPSP

Cheers
David

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Tilt

You've really got PixInsight working well for you Nice image David.

Michael

I am trying to learn it - it is a big package with a heap of potential

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

That's a superb image Dave - great detail and colour in the galaxy, and the foreground stars seem to give the whole image a 3-D feel to it!

glad you like it

Originally Posted by Prickly

Hi David,

Thats a particularly nice effort. You seem to be onto a winner with the refractor.

Hope to see you at SPSP

Cheers
David

Not this year David, i have to work I always knew it had potential - it just needed the means to show it

[alan meehan (Alan)]

nice image Dave with some more processing you can bring out a bit more colour ,lovely galaxy that one.
AL

[h0ughy (David)]

OK i have had a play with the data again, unfortunatley i have an amp glow issue - so why not crop to remove that