First Attempt on M51

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Hi Weixing! Its Beautiful!........ always a challenge to image galexies in Singapore. Great effort!
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weixing..
nicely done :)
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Its a very nice pic. Oh, remove the gradient also. it will bring out the full potential of the pic.
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nice shot, weixing.
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Hey! That's exactly what I saw in the Pentax eyepiece on the portaball at Mersing last week! Nice details, weixing. Very commendable for a first attempt! It looked like you are a pro!
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Hi,
After some reprocessing, here is the second version:
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Wow! I'm inspired!
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Wow wow wow! 8)
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nicely done!
how did you remove the gradient, weixing?
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Hi,
how did you remove the gradient, weixing?
When I look at the RGB channels of the image, I realized that the red channel of the image was full of noise. So by just reducing the red channel noise, the gradient was reduced greatly.

Anyway, still learning how to do image processing... hope can improve the image as much as possible.

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