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Title: M31 Core of Andromda Galaxy
Post by: kwalker on 2011 August 05 18:55:47

I stepped up to a better mount (CGEM) and broke it in this week during a camping trip.
I thought I'd share this cropped image of the Core of Andromeda and even though It was close to the Horizon I was still able to track it :)
No flats this run (I destroyed them)
10x600" ISO 800
Orion 8" F4.9 Newtonian
CGEM mount  Orion short tube with SSAG.
Baader MPCC
Canon Rebel xs  un-modded
Process steps
background Neutralization
Dynamic Background Extraction
Color calibration
Masked HDRWavelet transform
Masked  Unsharp Mask
Saturation boost and MaskedStretch
ACDNR

(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa283/kwalker50/CoreofAndromeda.png)

Title: Re: M31 Core of Andromda Galaxy
Post by: Nocturnal on 2011 August 05 20:50:24

Nice!

Title: Re: M31 Core of Andromda Galaxy
Post by: Jules on 2011 August 06 15:37:23

I like it, it would be nice to get some clear skies in my neck of the woods.

Regards

Julian

Title: Re: M31 Core of Andromda Galaxy
Post by: kwalker on 2011 August 06 15:47:29

Thanks Sander and Julian.
I would have gladly given up some of those clear skies during my camping trip ,at least during the day.
I'm a human lobster from all the Sun  8)