Backyard Sketches » Institutions http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk An Amateur Astronomer and Open University Student muses... Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 M31 – Bradford Robotic Telescope http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/2009/11/m31-bradford-robotic-telescope/ http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/2009/11/m31-bradford-robotic-telescope/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:04:03 +0000 byard-sketches http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/?p=163 Another of my job requests from the Bradford Robotic Telescope has been completed recently, this time of Messier 31 in Andromeda. As with the last image, I haven’t done any processing to it myself so it isn’t the most fantastically awesome picture in the world but hey, that’s what Hubble and amateur astronomers with money burning holes in their pockets is for!

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Okay, so I downloaded a trial version of Adobe Photoshop CS4 to have a play about with things:

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]]> http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/2009/11/m31-bradford-robotic-telescope/feed/ 0 Messier 27 http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/2009/11/messier-27/ http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/2009/11/messier-27/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:54:11 +0000 byard-sketches http://www.backyard-sketches.co.uk/?p=149 I submitted a job request on the Bradford Robotic Telescope ages a go and happened to remember this afternoon to check to see if it had been completed – it had been!

Exposure time was 120000 ms, filter used was an OIII and I used the Galaxy Telescope. I didn’t do any processing myself because I have absolutely no idea how to, so the image was processed using a beta of a image generator the website provides.

I think it looks alright – but not as good as it does with my own two eyes ;)

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[edit - 22/11/09]

Ran this image through Photoshop:
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