M51 - take 2

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Hi everyone

Here's my reprocess of M51. Still not perfect but I think it's an improvement on the original. This time I took more care to avoid clipping some of the colour channels. I think I'll stick to processing my own data from now on.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/m51_STL11K_RC.htm

[David Fitz-Henr]

Nice image Steve! You brought out a lot of the faint detail in the companion as well as a couple of background galaxies - well done!

[John Hothersall]

That is a professional image with great fine detail especially in the core and dust can even be seen in the interacting star mist.

John.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

That is a professional image with great fine detail especially in the core and dust can even be seen in the interacting star mist.

John.

Thanks John. I just hope that I did some degree of justice to the original data which of course is not mine.

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Nice image Steve! You brought out a lot of the faint detail in the companion as well as a couple of background galaxies - well done!

Thanks David

[spearo (Frank)]

lovely,
nice and hrp
colors are very nice too
well done
frank

[alan meehan (Alan)]

i would be pleased with that image Steve you have done a beautiful job
well done
AL

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Thanks Al and Frank. I appreciate your comments.

Steve

[Hagar (Doug)]

Lovely image Steve and quite an improvement over the first version. Looks great.
Well done.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Gaud, thats very good indeed. Wasnt it low in the S/H?, best ive seen from down under (assuming it was taken in the S/H)

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Gaud, thats very good indeed. Wasnt it low in the S/H?, best ive seen from down under (assuming it was taken in the S/H)

Thanks Fred. Definitely not taken from down here but from the Arizona desert by Jon Christensen. We did a data swap. I got M51 and he got the Tarantula which will presumably appear on his web site in due course.

Originally Posted by Hagar

Lovely image Steve and quite an improvement over the first version. Looks great.
Well done.

Thanks Doug. I should have taken more care the first time.

[Martin Pugh]

Hi Steve
I could not really compare the 2 versions because I think you must have just replaced the image on your site?

Anyway, I think the detail is good, but fundamentally, galaxy cores are not cyan in colour and I believe this was common to both images.

Are you able to fix this?

cheers
Martin

[Nightskystargaz (Thomas)]

Steve,

, your your very nice image of M-51 .

CS,KLU,

,

Tom

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Nightskystargaz

Steve,

, your your very nice image of M-51 .

CS,KLU,

,

Tom

Thanks Tom

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Hi Steve
I could not really compare the 2 versions because I think you must have just replaced the image on your site?

Anyway, I think the detail is good, but fundamentally, galaxy cores are not cyan in colour and I believe this was common to both images.

Are you able to fix this?

cheers
Martin

Martin,

I didn't leave the other image up there because I thought it was rubbish. Other comments would seem to indicate that I did better the second time round anyway. You are quite right in that I appear to have a problem with Cyan. I've just done another tweak which hopefully improves the image but I'm reluctant to go any further as this is after all not my data and I would rather just get on with something else.

Cheers

Steve