Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC-5194) - my first post on TL
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Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC-5194) - my first post on TL
I've chosen the Whirlpool Galaxy as my first subject here on Telescope Live, because it is beautiful :), also I've worked on versions of it previously with own sources (Vespera telescope) and also using other online FITS sources (such as Slooh). This one is using an hour long dataset from 11 Mar 2021, 13:15, using the now I understand discontinued SPA-2-CCD. Pretty decent result for one hour of data, well done on the quality of data here at TL :)
Source dataset: https://app.telescope.live/click-grab/details/507
Source dataset: https://app.telescope.live/click-grab/details/507
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
SPA-2
Camera
SPA-2-CCD
Location
Spain
Date of observation
11 Mar 2021
Filters
RGB
Processing
PixInsight (AutoIntegrate, NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator), StarTools, Adobe Photoshop (Camera Raw, StarXTerminator, for separation and then blending of stars and galaxy), Topaz Gigapixel (for the boosted resolution I worked in)
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Comments
I think something happened with TL site as I was posting this, at least for me I see my second image (which shows the PixInsight and StarTools stages of my flow) show with an error (NAN - not a number). Either way hopefully you can see the main photo :)
Reply: 2
Hi Lachezar, first congrats for the great image processing. Sorry for the NAN error on the multiple version of the image, it will be fixed asap. Ciao, Ernesto
I see the NAN issue is fixed and I correctly get the 1/2 and 2/2 images. Thanks :)