Friday, April 20, 2018

Reprocessed M51

Thanks to Ken, who showed me how to make an object mask in Photoshop!  This is reprocessed version of the image posted in my last update. Amazing what a little tweaking will do!


Here's a version with higher contrast, but with less detail more artifacts. I ran it through Astrometry. net and, as you can see, two fainter galaxies ICs 4277 and 4278 (magnitudes 15.4 and 15.7 respectively) are lurking in the background.


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