ASTRO: NGC 3628

In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Whow Rick amazing! can i use it as desktop wallpaper?
picture says it all, nothing to add.

reg
Dirk
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/dvdherik/


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Of course you can.
Good seeing is a rare bird at this location. The night was cut short
when the haze got too thick to image through. Unfortunately hazy nights
are about the only ones with good seeing. There's an interesting tail
to this guy but you need much better transparency to capture it. Those
nights have lousy seeing it seems.

Rick

D van den H wrote:
Whow Rick amazing! can i use it as desktop wallpaper?
picture says it all, nothing to add.

reg
Dirk
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/dvdherik/


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
news
In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Rick,

amazing detail in the dark lane. I'd wish I had one like that.

Stefan

"Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Of course you can.
Good seeing is a rare bird at this location. The night was cut short when
the haze got too thick to image through. Unfortunately hazy nights are
about the only ones with good seeing. There's an interesting tail to this
guy but you need much better transparency to capture it. Those nights
have lousy seeing it seems.

Rick

D van den H wrote:
Whow Rick amazing! can i use it as desktop wallpaper?
picture says it all, nothing to add.

reg
Dirk
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/dvdherik/


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
news
In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

A tad pink for me but very nice. The detail in the clouds is great

Joe


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
news
In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".



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I pushed the blue as far as I could without it getting really cruddy.
Problem is with that haze the blue is subtracted out and scattered. So
it was blue short to start with. Pushing it more just blew the blue out
of proportion and made all the stars blue, turned the blue parts of the
galaxy to near pure blue. Cutting back red and green did the same. So
this is where it ended up without selecting parts of the image and
artificially pushing colors one place and not another. Someone more
Photoshop aware could likely do it in 3 seconds. I'm not there yet when
the data is heavily skewed as this was. Background count for blue was
9, for green it was 27 and for red 33. That's how much blue the haze
subtracted from the image. Normally blue would be about 27, green 34
and red 35 for this exposure. That makes it easy to color balance.
When your red data is nearly 4 times stronger than blue I'm up that
proverbial creek.

I'll try and get new blue data when and if these clouds ever leave.

Rick

J McBride wrote:

A tad pink for me but very nice. The detail in the clouds is great

Joe


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
news
In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

I try to get mine real close in CCDSoft then pop it over to PS and finish
the tweaks there. I played with it a tad in PS and really got the light
coming through the dust lane to really redden up. There are quite a few
background galaxies in your image. They come in all shapes and sizes and
colors. You need a web page or something to show off your images because
you are really getting good. I can't wait to see M65 & M66

Joe


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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I pushed the blue as far as I could without it getting really cruddy.
Problem is with that haze the blue is subtracted out and scattered. So
it was blue short to start with. Pushing it more just blew the blue out
of proportion and made all the stars blue, turned the blue parts of the
galaxy to near pure blue. Cutting back red and green did the same. So
this is where it ended up without selecting parts of the image and
artificially pushing colors one place and not another. Someone more
Photoshop aware could likely do it in 3 seconds. I'm not there yet when
the data is heavily skewed as this was. Background count for blue was
9, for green it was 27 and for red 33. That's how much blue the haze
subtracted from the image. Normally blue would be about 27, green 34
and red 35 for this exposure. That makes it easy to color balance.
When your red data is nearly 4 times stronger than blue I'm up that
proverbial creek.

I'll try and get new blue data when and if these clouds ever leave.

Rick

J McBride wrote:

A tad pink for me but very nice. The detail in the clouds is great

Joe


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
news
In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Unfortunately, my ISP offers no web space unless you pay commercial
rates and I don't know the first thing about setting up a web site. Yet
another learning curve to master!

Rick


J McBride wrote:

I try to get mine real close in CCDSoft then pop it over to PS and finish
the tweaks there. I played with it a tad in PS and really got the light
coming through the dust lane to really redden up. There are quite a few
background galaxies in your image. They come in all shapes and sizes and
colors. You need a web page or something to show off your images because
you are really getting good. I can't wait to see M65 & M66

Joe


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
...

I pushed the blue as far as I could without it getting really cruddy.
Problem is with that haze the blue is subtracted out and scattered. So
it was blue short to start with. Pushing it more just blew the blue out
of proportion and made all the stars blue, turned the blue parts of the
galaxy to near pure blue. Cutting back red and green did the same. So
this is where it ended up without selecting parts of the image and
artificially pushing colors one place and not another. Someone more
Photoshop aware could likely do it in 3 seconds. I'm not there yet when
the data is heavily skewed as this was. Background count for blue was
9, for green it was 27 and for red 33. That's how much blue the haze
subtracted from the image. Normally blue would be about 27, green 34
and red 35 for this exposure. That makes it easy to color balance.
When your red data is nearly 4 times stronger than blue I'm up that
proverbial creek.

I'll try and get new blue data when and if these clouds ever leave.

Rick

J McBride wrote:


A tad pink for me but very nice. The detail in the clouds is great

Joe


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
news

In keeping with my theme of disturbed galaxies here the faint member of
the Leo Triplet. I have taken M65 and M66 but not yet gotten around to
processing them. For now this one will have to do. Taken on a night of
better than average seeing for a change.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=8x5', RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

"J McBride" wrote
...
........ There are quite a few
background galaxies in your image. They come in all shapes and sizes and
colors........

Rick, Joe, et al:

There's also a tight double star over on the right side of the image that
shows how good the resolution is. Great shot!

George N