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m65 & M66

Started by RUSTY845, 05/06/2007 02:41AM
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Well here's last nights work. The image was taken TV NP-127is, Losmandy G11 Gemini mount, and a starlight xpress Mx-716 camera. They are a stack of 40, 30sec. exp's, Processed in AIP4WIN & Photoshop CS2. The image is of two galaxies in the constellation Leo the galaxy on the left is M66 and the galaxy on the right is M65.

Hope you like them

Bob


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Posted 05/06/2007 10:17AM #1
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A couple of Leo favourites and youve done a nice job on them Bob.
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Posted 05/07/2007 12:45PM #2
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Very nice, Bob! Do you have a bigger version available?

Try playing around a bit with DDP (there should be a version of that process in AIP4WIN) to bring out more details from the cores of those galaxies.

Eric
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Posted 05/07/2007 01:09PM #3
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Great catch Bob! 8)
Have you tried to use a focal reducer, like tha Atik .5 on your setup? 8)

Thanks for sharing, and keep'em coming!
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