22 hours on M83

[ChrisD (Chris)]

Hi All,

So, 22hours of 5 min subs from a ASI294MC attached to a Celestron C8 mounted on a HEQ5 Pro in Melbourne with Bortle 5 sky.

I'm happy with the detail. I intentionally didn't push the colour too hard, in an attempt to get a more subtle "galaxy" look.

I think it's the best I can get from this equipment.

Chris

[John W (John Wilkinson)]

Really nice image Chris - worth the effort. Cheers John W.

[JA]

Well done Chris.
And from Melbourne ....

Best
JA

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Hot damn... That is brilliant. The amount of detail in there is amazing. Very, very well done.

Cheers,
V

[Dave882 (David)]

Beautiful work on this one. Extremely deep and detailed and well processed too. Well worth the effort!!

[Addos (Adam)]

Very nice! Were the subs all unfiltered? That's pretty good Ha/red pickup!

[PKay (Peter)]

Ditto to all the praise.

One of your best Chris

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's brilliant! Well done.

[LKD (Luke)]

I think it's the best I can get from this equipment.

Chris[/QUOTE]

I agree great image, well done

[Startrek (Martin)]

Chris,
Excellent image of M83
Your poured some serious hours into it which has resulted in a fine image with goo detail
Well done !!
Martin

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Ah, forgot to comment on this one Chris, a very pleasant M83 that, a classic traditional galaxy look, nicely balanced, good work

Mike

[Nikolas (Nik)]

I reckon you nailed it!
Was the core burned out in the original stack preprocess? It is just a smidge burned out and I'm thinking you can salvage this using layer masks.

[Stephane]

Lovely image Chris. The natural colours look great and detail is excellent.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Your restrained colour suits this one well, since it easily becomes a caricature if it is pushed too much. Nice.

[YawRate (Guy)]

Great Image, and I'm a fan of the colours too. I appreciate when the saturation isn't maxxd for sure!

[ChrisD (Chris)]

John W (John Wilkinson), JA, AstroViking (Steve), Dave882 (David), PKay (Peter), multiweb (Marc), LKD (Luke), Startrek (Martin),
strongmanmike (Michael), Nikolas (Nik), Stephane, Shiraz (Ray), YawRate (Guy) and Addos (Adam).

I appreciate your comments.

Also it's nice to have a group of people on the forum who constantly encourage and advise struggling astrophotographers (like me), thank you all.

For Adam, I only used a UV/IR filter, no Ha/OIII. I tried, but only had around 3 hours of subs in Ha/OIII and that really didn't improve the overall result.

Chris

[sfarndell (Scott)]

A little late to the party, but really nice image!

I count at least 4 smaller galaxies in the background which are showing a great amount of detail too! Well done.

[Saturn488]

Wow, Amazing!