Hi,
Finally after a long time without shooting a galaxy I managed to put together a widefiled image of M51. This galaxy shows many Ha active regions, I tried to precess the image in a way the the Ha regions will stand out but without overprocessing it. I am happy with the result. I hope you like it.
Image details:
- Acquired by Scott Johnson, Daniele Malleo, Rick Stevenson, Bret Charles, José Mtanous and John Kasianowicz.
- Processed by José Mtanous
- Telescope Ceravolo 300mm (corrected Cassegrain) @ f/4.9
- Camera FLI PL-16803
- Resolution 1.29″ per pixel
- Astrodon Filters
- Mount: Astrophisycs 1100
- Capturing Software ACP, MaximDL
- Processed with Pixninsight and Photoshop
- Exposures: Ha 49 x 1800s, B: 28 x 1200s, R: 56 x 1200s, G: 32 x 1200s, L: 42 x 1200s
Center crop (native resolution)
Full frame @ native resolution (slightly cropped)
Another nice feature of this image is a dim structure close to NGC5198, at first glance it looks like a tidal tail, but I haven’t found any information about it. I checked the individual frames and the structure is not a processing artifact.