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M51 last night!

Started by Trannyguy, 05/11/2008 08:07PM
Posted 05/11/2008 08:07PM Opening Post
Hi all,

Here's my first image in a few weeks smile
I took a new job not long ago and frankly I have been a bit too wore out to have much interest in shooting lately sad

Last night I found my enthusiasm again and decided to shoot M51.

Pretty good conditions,seeing just average but transparency was good!

This is 44x300s Luminance,7x300sRG and 7x360sBlue.

I would like some more color as usual but ran out of darkness.

I have a full size image reduced to 60% to post and a crop.

CCDStack for calibration,stacking,deconvolution on the luminance,initial LRGB combine and DDP.
CS2 for levels,curves,noise reduction and the LLRGB combine.

I had troubles with color balance as usual,I think this is close though smile

TMB 115 at F7
ST10xme
1200gto

Thanks for looking and I welcome your feedback,

Here's the full size.

Jason

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Posted 05/11/2008 08:08PM #1
Here's the cropped version.


Jason

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Posted 05/11/2008 11:51PM #2
BEAUTIFUL! 8)
Lovely colors & detail Jason, well done!

Ivan Gastaldo 8)
Coconut Creek, FL

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Posted 05/13/2008 06:04AM #3
Nice one Jason. Looks like you got a nice rich saturation on the colors.

Jim Thommes

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