Canopus56 wrote:
Patrick, I would like to experiment with your image in AIP4WIN. If you are amenable, would you send me the FITS. I was able to replicate the level of detail that Tyler achieved in the outer disk but suspect that the detail in your "original" jpg image in the bright galaxy core is no longer there (in the jpg file). - Regards, Kurt
Tell ya what, since you are not the first to ask for the data I'll zip them up and post them to the web and let everyone have a go. As for the core, the way Tyler explained it to me is he took my "finished" image and used Photoshop to erase everything but the outer areas of the galaxies and coupled that with one of my 1 minute shots. Patrick p.s. I'm just getting home (long day falling out of airplanes) and am about to open my observatory. After I get going I'll try to get the raw data posted.