M31 Andromeda Galaxy

[hectorbdn]

Hello everyone! I was very proud at the moment to achieve this picture, it was very painful on the processing due to large background uneven illumination , anyways this is one of my last pictures with a DSLR modded, a Canon 550D, many people tends to make the core not bright but in my opinion I feel it unnatural, I tried to match what you see through a telescope with the image, so this is intended, many people don't like it but matter of taste I guess! let me know what you think about it



16 x 600 seconds Halpha
11 x 400 seconds
9 x 60 seconds (for core detail)

SW NEQ6 PRO II
TS-Optics 130/650mm Imaging Star APO
Canon 550D modded , EZG60 + QHY6 (guiding)
Sequence generator pro, PixInsight

[MariusD69]

Looks great! Well done, Hector!

[fatboy1271]

I should want to give up but instead I'm inspired! I like the bright core and the whole thing looks great.

[hectorbdn]

I should want to give up but instead I'm inspired! I like the bright core and the whole thing looks great.

Give up!? never give up! this target it's harder than it looks but I love challenges! glad you find it inspiring, thanks

[BABOafrica]

Love the image. And yeah, the bright core looks just fine ...

BABO

[Don Quixote]

Yes Hector.
I think I understand your attitude and I appreciate this image very much.
It is an augmentation to my best visual observations rather than an "invention".

[Kanadalainen]

Wow!! This is incredible. Beautiful result, thanks Hector.

Ian

[Arctic]

An excellent image!

[hectorbdn]

Love the image. And yeah, the bright core looks just fine ...

BABO

Thanks! ^_^

[hectorbdn]

Yes Hector.
I think I understand your attitude and I appreciate this image very much.
It is an augmentation to my best visual observations rather than an "invention".

yes, that was my point! enhancement rather than invention

thank you very much

[hectorbdn]

Wow!! This is incredible. Beautiful result, thanks Hector.

Ian

glad you like it! thanks!

[hectorbdn]

An excellent image!

greatly appreciated!

[JohnP_1]

Very nice job with this one. I agree, it is a difficult target to process. To my eyes the background sky look overly blue. I suggest performing an S-curve transformation to increase the color contrast with especially the blue channel. In addition, I suggest decreasing the saturation a bit of the blue regions and then defining the gray point for the image.

[OzEclipse]

Wonderful image Hector!

Joe

[hectorbdn]

Very nice job with this one. I agree, it is a difficult target to process. To my eyes the background sky look overly blue. I suggest performing an S-curve transformation to increase the color contrast with especially the blue channel. In addition, I suggest decreasing the saturation a bit of the blue regions and then defining the gray point for the image.

Hello john, you are totally right, thank you very much for your advice, I took this picture like 2 years ago so I think I will give it a try to improve, just for showing , the gradients were like this:



awful, isn't it?

[hectorbdn]

Wonderful image Hector!

Joe

thanks Joe, glad you like it!