M31 - Lots of firsts

chris.bailey wrote in post #13186622
Added another hour or so of data to it last night which has allowed a better colour rendition and killed off the residual gradient. Aiming for an hour or so in each channel so a bit more yet.

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Really stunning. Please keep posting what you photograph, these are amazing.

Thank for sharing. Keep job.

Looking better all the time.

super job on both!, i never took M31 this nice so i shouldnt comment to much, but i think you have more data in the 1st image, i see the white got clipped seeing the smaller core in the second, if you have PS, try auto color then blend mode lighten around 80-90%, theres also a UK atn for enchancing dust lanes

Great job Chris! This one is on my list of items to photograph, I could only wish for something half as nice.

spit wrote in post #13187340
super job on both!, i never took M31 this nice so i shouldnt comment to much, but i think you have more data in the 1st image, i see the white got clipped seeing the smaller core in the second, if you have PS, try auto color then blend mode lighten around 80-90%, theres also a UK atn for enchancing dust lanes

Nothing in there is clipped, its still well short of the limits of the histogram. I process in 32bit using a programme called Pixinsight which has some very clever HDR wavelets functions. I used an extra iteration on the second image as having more data permitted taking it a bit further to reveal some of the finer detail. If you look closely at some of the dust lanes there is quite a bit more detail in the second image.

chris, i think you should send this to greg parker, he just started an image of week at the new forest observatory website-heres a link if you want to http://www.newforestob​servatory.com/iow/