Andromeda from Astrofest

[multiweb (Marc)]

Much happier with this one. Personal best.

Big one here [4.2MB - 3002x1980]
and HD version here: [2.3MB - 1920x1266]

After I discarded about 25% of the subs due to fog I had about 35x5min left. I reckon I need to review the subs I used in my M33 stack. Might be the issue with the lack of colors.

Enjoy the view.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Very nice Marc, very nice, well done

I so wanna do an Astrofest

Mike

[Kunama]

Beautiful image Marc !

[RobC (Rob)]

Well done Marc, great image. What time in the morning did you capture this one ?

Cheers

Rob

[gregbradley]

That's a great southern hemi M31 image Marc.

Very nice.

Greg.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Awesome, much better than the one that came with my macbook screensaver!
Well done sir

[raymo]

To coin an oft used phrase, that's a ripper.
raymo

[h0ughy (David)]

love your work Marc

[Somnium (Aidan)]

really nicely done! looks like a poster, amazing field of view as well, i don't have anything that would capture this

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Well done Marc, that's a beauty

[batema (Mark)]

Beautiful image.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

That's a beauty Marc. Love the colours and the detail in the dust lanes. Is it drizzle processed?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Very nice Marc, very nice, well done

I so wanna do an Astrofest

Mike

Thanks Mike. Yeah definitely worth the trip.

Originally Posted by Kunama

Beautiful image Marc !

Thanks Matt

Originally Posted by RobC

Well done Marc, great image. What time in the morning did you capture this one ?

Cheers

Rob

Thanks Rob. I think it came up above the trees around 1:00am. I shot it Sunday, Monday & Tuesday.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a great southern hemi M31 image Marc.

Very nice.

Greg.

Thanks Greg.

Originally Posted by Andy01

Awesome, much better than the one that came with my macbook screensaver!
Well done sir

Thanks Andy . Your McBook one probably has better colours and contrast but I'm happy with the details.

Originally Posted by raymo

To coin an oft used phrase, that's a ripper.
raymo

Thanks a lot Raymo.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

love your work Marc

Thanks David

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Well done Marc, that's a beauty

Thanks a lot mate.

Originally Posted by Somnium

really nicely done! looks like a poster, amazing field of view as well, i don't have anything that would capture this

Thanks Aidan. Yeah, it just fits in the FSQ field. Perfect scope to image it.

Originally Posted by batema

Beautiful image.

Thanks Mark

Originally Posted by peter_4059

That's a beauty Marc. Love the colours and the detail in the dust lanes. Is it drizzle processed?

Thanks mate. No it was my normal processing flow in CCD Stack. Still working out some quirks with Bayer drizzle. I probably pushed the saturation too much to get the blues. That's hard to get them at that low altitude or you need a lot more integration time. I reckon the problem I've been having in PI were related to a batch of bad subs taken in the fog. It seems to really chuck a fit when there are dodgy subs in the pre processing script. Now I know I'll give it another go.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Absolutely stunning and a delight to explore. Magnificent.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Absolutely stunning and a delight to explore. Magnificent.

Thanks a lot Mike. Glad you liked it. I think I'll do a final version to deal with the blue cast in the background and restore some of those star profiles as I was a bit heavy handed with saturation.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Very nice, well done Marc

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Very nice, well done Marc

Thanks Slawomir.

[Paul Haese]

Round star with great star colour. Fine detail processing is excellent. I think you could tease out some more of the Ha regions though. And; maybe the back ground is a little blue. The detail and smoothness of the image is very nice in my opinion.

[RB (Andrew)]

Marc how beautiful is that!
One of the best M31 I've seen from the Southern Hem.

I know how hard it is to image this from down here and you've done a great job.
One of my favourite objects and I'd love to image this again.
You've inspired me now, thank you.

RB

[Octane (Humayun)]

Beautiful, Marc.

You've inspired me to reprocess mine from a few years ago.

H