Markarian's Chain

The late winter & spring weather here in Southern Ontario has been absolutely putrid, so I've been having fun 'driving' telescopes remotely via the internet. This way I can continue to image & develop new processing skills. I have also taken exposures to supplement data I collected with my own setup, with the goal of reprocessing & improving my images.

This LRGB image was taken with a GRAS telescope located in New Mexico (Takahashi FSQ106 & ST11000M riding on a Paramount). Exposures were 6x10min Luminance then 4x5min through each of the R,G, and B filters. The frames were calibrated & stacked with MaximDL5Pro, processed in PS CS3, then refined using Noel Carboni's' Actions for PS (highly recommended!!).

BTW, I found getting good realistic colour to show in the galaxies & stars to be very challenging! Your feedback & advice would be greatly appreciated! :-).