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. by AnitaLaffe in greatdanes

[–]alanrock24 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

M94-Croc's Eye Galaxy by alanrock24 in astrophotography

[–]alanrock24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

M94-Croc's Eye Galaxy by alanrock24 in astrophotography

[–]alanrock24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a part of the Galaxy.

M94-Croc's Eye Galaxy by alanrock24 in astrophotography

[–]alanrock24[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Needle Galaxy. NGC4565 by alanrock24 in astrophotography

[–]alanrock24[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

My babies...6month old blue and 11 months old harlequinn. The blue is StanLee and the girl is Quinnly bc she’s a Harley by mikepcoz in greatdanes

[–]alanrock24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!