matey 3

[niko]

Great result Pat

I was going to suggest trying to remove the gradient too - I'm struggling with it myself.

Nice works houghy - I'm gunna give it a burl on my images too

niko

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by Lee

Nice for such a short collection - increasing your subs should really make it pop out... It's M83 season, I just got my new CCD today, M83 will be the first galaxy I point her at I'd say.... just need to wait for the moon to go now.....

Absolutely.

As I said, this target was my TRIAL target to get acquated with the CCD, having never really used on before. Nutted all the debayering out etc, and now I know what to do (a little more contrived than a DSLR astrophoto).

If tonight co-operates, it'll be about 4 hours on it from my side yard (much darker), but that means waiting till it is above roof line about 12 am.


Per ardua, ad astra

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Nice one Pat. I had a go at this last night although I did not get the pink/ red in the spiral arms to come through very well. I see you have done well getting that colour.

[raymo]

Hi all, I downloaded DSS and it stuffed up my laptop; couldn't shut it down, and it stopped the uninstaller from getting rid of it. The only
way out was to do a system restore. I am now reluctant to try
downloading it again, and am going to continue with registax.
raymo

[blink138 (Pat)]

thanks niko and steve
more by good luck rather than good management with the colour in the arms steve...... but i must admit i was amazed at the stack...... this is i am sure is what drives us all on!
pat