Thursday, December 16, 2010

M31 Galaxy (Sleepless in Vancouver)


Jet lag-I hate it. Since I arrived here last Sunday, I never had a good night's rest. So instead of lying in bed and forcing myself to sleep, I kept myself awake by processing my M31 image. I was not optimistic that there would be improvement as the raw subs were not good. I shot these last year at home using very short subs fearing that light pollution would overwhelm the signal. IRIS somehow extracted the galaxy from the uneven gradient of light pollution and I was a bit satisfied with the new results! Now, when will be the next new moon?

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