M51 from 2/2004

Started by ecdon, 02/21/2005 10:34PM
Posted 02/21/2005 10:34PM | Edited 02/22/2005 12:42AM Opening Post
Hi All,
All this rain we are getting has me has me bored out of my goard, so I have been going back and re-processing some older images. Here's M51 from this time last year. This was shot with no filter under about mag 3 to 4 skies, so the light pollution gradiant was a little tough to deal with.
Thanks for looking,
Don
Almost forgot: 12" LX200 w/3.3FR and ST-7ME

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Don Spencer
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Posted 02/22/2005 03:32AM #1
Don, great image!
Hope you won't mind me playing a lil' bit with it in Photoshop. Applied a bit of Unsharp Mask to bring up hidden detail you had in the core & arms of the galaxy... quite a nice shot you got!

Thanks for sharing! wink

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