M82 (me again...)

Hi all,

Taking the advice in this area, I increased my sub length to 10 minutes each for this image of M82 for a total of 90 minutes. I hope it looks ok, I feel ok about it. Seeing was not good again, around 4.5" FWHM. Normally April is a good seeing month for me, but not this year. This is actually an LRGB image (I extracted the lum layer from each sub).

Hints and tips welcomed.

http://web.gccaz.edu/~pmaxson/DSO/M82.jpg

Thanks again!!
Paul Maxson

Paul,nice detail and some selective smoothing on the background would help with the contrast.

Hi Paul,

NICE! 8) When I first looked at your M81 image, I had to do a double take because I was thinking "doesn't he have a one-shot color"? before I started seeing some subtle shading in the stars. With this M82, there's no doubt that this is indeed a color shot!

Eric