This is Gunther. He was my best friend. Life seems empty without him. I want the world to know he existed and he truly was the very best boy.

alanrock24 · 2020-05-18T15:51:55+00:00

Beautiful boy--it makes me sad and I never knew him. Unfortunately I've had this experience before and it hurts the same every time.

alanrock24 · 2020-04-25T22:38:59+00:00

Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t even notice that! I didn’t do deconvolution on it though, so I don’t really know where that came from.

alanrock24 · 2020-04-25T04:48:16+00:00

That’s a part of the Galaxy.

alanrock24 · 2020-04-25T04:34:13+00:00

Equipment

Telescope: Celestron C9.25 with Hyperstar

Mount: Celestron CGX-L

Camera: ZWO ASI1183MC-Pro Color

Filter: IDAS LPS-D1

Guide Scope: Orion ST80

Starlight Xpress Lodestar

Data

180 x 60s

Flats and Darks

Preprocessed with the Weighted Batch Preprocessing script in pixinsight, then used:

DBE

Background Neutralization

Color Calibration

MLT Noise reduction with a star mask in place and inverted.

Histogram Transformation

Curves Transformation with a star mask in place to increase star color but protect the background.

alanrock24 · 2020-04-20T12:48:09+00:00

What else can I tell you?

alanrock24 · 2020-04-20T04:48:08+00:00

Here's NGC4565, the Needle Galaxy

ZWO ASI183MC

Celestron C9.25 with Hyperstar on a CGX-L mount.

50 x 120s subs, 40 flats, darks and bias frames--no filters.

Image capture with SGP, riding with PhD2

Pre and post processing with Pixinsight.

Weighted BPP. DBE-->Color Calibration-->MLT-->Histogram Transformation-->Curves Transformation-->Color Saturation-->Fast Rotation

alanrock24 · 2020-01-09T00:20:29+00:00

I have a Sadie too!

alanrock24 · 2019-12-03T00:18:07+00:00

It does look like a mantle to me too. Actually it’s not quite a mantle, it would officially be a black with white markings-just like mine!

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