Gallery XI - Galaxies

After a long period of cloudy weather the clouds parted. And most amazing of all on the night of an astronomy club meeting (OVAS), incredible. I put the Stellacam EX into the 10" f5.6 and added f6 focal reducer from Steve Mogg. I added 1760 frames with Astrovideo and used a "sense up" of 128x ( 128 frames added on the chip). Galaxies in Ursa Major and Leo were visited before the clouds rolled in to end the evening.

     M82 the irregular galaxy in UM:

Frames added with Astrovideo, histogram stretching in GIMP

Frames added with REGISTAX, some wavelet, histogram stretching and mild Gaussian Blur in GIMP

M81 the spiral galaxy in UM, histogram stretching in GIMP

M65 a spiral galaxy in Leo with unsharp masking and histogram stretching in GIMP

M66 a spiral galaxy in Leo:

Frames added in Astrovideo  Histogram stretching in GIMP

Frames added with REGISTAX Histogram stretching and mild Gaussian Blur in GIMP Acht the noise!

Frames added in Astrovideo  Histogram stretching and Gaussian Blur in GIMP

Frames added with Astrovideo Brightness & contrast adjusted and unsharp maskin in Photoshop Essentials version 2

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