Sorry its M51 again but this time I might just have nailed it.

[+Graham]

Hi folks.

I know I know its that lune back again with another vague attempt at M51.

But I think I have actually nailed it this time.

Set up last night to take 5 min subs at ISO 400 but the first one off the line was so over exposed I dropped it down to 3 mins.

In total managed to get 70 subs before it got too light this morning.

I brought the frames with me to work this morning so I could put them through DSS.

The pics are as they came out of DSS, no processing in PS or anything.

I cannot wait until I can get home tonight and put the 'autosave' through PS.

Graham.

Edited June 29, 2012 by Astrotec Limited

[Perkil8r]

Fantastic work there! Can't wait to see the processed version, you can already see a hell of a lot of detail in there, so once tweaked that looks very promising indeed. Well done that man!

[+Graham]

Thanks Mike.

It is a step up a bit from the first one I did.

Itching to go home and put it through PS but I have loads to do here before that can happen.

[red dwalf]

looks very nice Graham, you should be able to pull alot of detail from that, i`d be very happy,

M51 has been my fav thing to image for the last 2 years although i still haven`t got anything as nice as yours, i have a few nice mono images but i hate using the processing software, it never seems to work for me, my last lot of data from SGL was promissing but every time i added the colour channels it started to go wrong, i`ve given it to Ibbo to have a play with and hopefully he can get something out of it.

[Guest Kheldar]

That's looking cracking, we need to get your flat panel sorted out though!!!!

[Daz Type-R]

And he has it nailed - looking good - can't wait to see the finished result.

[Antares_Paul]

Those cores are sweet!

Roll on the weekend so I can go out and play. I've been casting an envious eye on the skies from work and apart from Monday [heavy condensation] it's been very good in the YO8 area. Cue the clouds rolling in Saturday evening ...

Regards.

PS: Graham - have a crack at Andromeda some time. I'd like to see what you do with it.

[+Graham]

Many thanks for the kind words.

Paul will it fit in a single frame?

Mind I have only ever seen it once before might just have a go at it next time.

[Perkil8r]

I think you will struggle with the 200p to get it all in one frame, will be very close.

[+Graham]

Well I have grabbed 10 mins from work to have a quick play with this in GIMP.

[Daz Type-R]

Love number 2. Good detail.

[+Graham]

Cheers its a bit ott mind it would help if I had a clue what I was doing. lol

[Perkil8r]

When you get back and get PS open, take your time, I'm sure that's going to be mega! Already looks fantastic with gimp.

[Antares_Paul]

The beauty of gathering data is you can always go back to it.

I'm keeping everything [good or bad] on an external hard drive so as I improve I can have another go processing etc.

Cloudy nights will therefore still be useful

Regards.

PS: FoV - yes I forget not everyone images with small refractors/reducer. But stitching together 2 or 3 neb images seems like fun too

[+Graham]

A mosaic of Andromeda now that sounds like a challange I might just take on.

[+Graham]

Well I don't know what I am doing wrong in PS but I cannot get a decent photo from the autosave.

I did load the gimped version into PS and this is what I have come up with.

[Perkil8r]

Can you crop the autosave and post it or will it still be too big? Don't resize, just crop that way the detail will still stay.

[+Graham]

Hi Mike.

No its huge.

I just don't understand why I cannot get PS to work.

I have watched hours and hours of tutorials But I still cannot do anything with it.

I adjust the levels stretch the histogram all as per the videos and all I end up with is a washed out grey picture.

[Perkil8r]

How big is the original file? Cropping should take it down by about 40 or 50 times, so if it was 40mb it should get to less than 1mb I reckon. If you can get it below 4mb by cropping, try emailing it to me.

[+Graham]

Hi Mike

It is 75MB.

I loaded PS6 onto the office computer this morning.

When I tried to open the 'autosave' I was promptly told by this bloody computer I did not have enough RAM to open it.

So it was back to the Gimped version I did yesterday to see if I could extract any more detail out of it in PS6.

Had a play for a couple of hours and this is the result.

Must rearly get some work done.

[Guest Tweedledum]

Hi Graham,

Can you send me the original file???.

Cheers

[Antares_Paul]

I disregard the autosave and 'save picture to file' 16bit TIFF.

The autosave perhaps gets corrupted somehow in DSS. I can never open them in any graphics package.

Regards.

[+Graham]

Thanks Paul I will try that next time.

I will give it ago Damian.

[Guest robbobsam]

Thats an incredible image you have captured there. Well Done.