Roboscopes April23 Imaging Competition - M81 & M82 Widefield

Here is my rendition of the Data Set, I thought I'd post it anyway even though I'm not able to enter. I just wanted to see what the Data Set was like. I did vet and remove a few frames but used most of them. This is the first time me using Dual Band filters...Im quite impressed ...cant wait to try them on an emission nebula.

Thanks for looking

Here is my interpretation of the data. I used most of the frames, and integrated OSC and HaOIII separately before combining them together in this image.

CS

Manuel

And here is the image:

Herewith my somewhat understated effort...  Hats off to the Roboscopes team - Pier 5 looks to be producing some fantastic data.

Hello everyone,

this is my version of the M81 and M82 picture. I only used the RGB data. The processing was done in Pixinsight and a little bit in PS. I croped the inage for a better look. 

always CS and a good time

Markus

This is my version of the competition data.

It was the first time I worked with dual band filters. But it was a lot of fun :)

CS

Darius

What a talented bunch you are, and I'm so glad not to be a judge. Only tomorrow (Sunday) to get your entry in should you wish to enter, with really generous prizes on offer.

Good luck to all the entrants. 

Cheers and CS, 

Ray 

So here´s my interpretation of the M81 M82 competition dataset.

It contains both datasets, RGB and Dual Band Filter, and I tried not to generate an overprocessed image, at the same time still trying to visualize fine structures in a somewhat "natural" look. Which was quite a challenge in processing :-)

I used PixInsight and a little postprocessing in Affinity Photo.

Enjoy and good luck everyone - looking forward for the next challenge.

CS, Martin

Hi everyone, 

glad you provided data so i can improve my skills for free. It was very challenging to handle the dust/noise ratio.
I've used Siril for processing and Gimp playing with the layers and colors.

Thanks to all the other guys for the impressions which gave me a stunning wow, what else is hidden in the data.  

Michael

Processed in Pixinsight, here is my version. No Ha/O3, left it out. Just OSC.

Maybe something more challenging for the May competition. :)

In the meantime the suspense is killing me waiting for the announcement of the winner and runner-up for April.

Good luck judges. Personally I think you should just announce a winner and as a one-off make everyone else a runner-up. :)

Cheers, 

Ray (Just a spectator) 

To give you an idea the attached screenshot of a capture by and copyright of Andreas Aufschneiter, is in my opinion, almost as good as my attempt. You'll probably now understand why I didn't enter so's to give everyone else a chance. :)

I wish we were allowed to edit our posts 

With reference to the previous post of mine and the attachment. The screenshot was taken from an image posted on Astrophotography Picture Of the Day, (APOD). 

APOD published on 20th January 2023.

Title: Galaxy Wars : M81 and M82

Image and copyright of Andreas Aufschneider. 

Thank you all for taking part in our first Roboscopes competition. The overall standard of processing was high which made judging very difficult. 

After much discussion the Roboscopes team have came to the following decision.

First place winner is  Anunnaki with a very sympathetic process and a very close second was Martin94b who managed to go very deep on the IFN.

Anunnaki will receive 5hrs of free data for Pier 6, please DM me and I will input your job into the system. Martin94b you will receive a €30 voucher in the next few days.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you once again to everyone who took part. Look out for our next competition in the following weeks.

Regards

Peter Shah

Well done All

I had a go but my OSC prcessing is shocking - ending up with a huge red gradient on the data.  Need to clear some time and have another go

Congratulation to Anunnaki for the truly excellent work and the well earned 1st prize!

And thanks to Roboscopes for choosing my image on 2nd place (even though I observed a green artefakt from Affinity Photo when finally exporting the image to jpg).

Ready to hit the next challenge :-)

Congratulation to Anunnaki for the truly excellent work and the well earned 1st prize!

And thanks to Roboscopes for choosing my image on 2nd place (even though I observed a green artefakt from Affinity Photo when finally exporting the image to jpg).

Ready to hit the next challenge :-)

Morning, Yeh we saw that and cut you some slack as it could have just as easily been an upload artifact LOL

Congrats to both of you anyway, well done :) We hope over the coming months more people realise its free data and free entry and start taking adavantage as its just a little fun

We are just collecting some data for the next competition at present, wont be long :)

Steve

Thank you all for taking part in our first Roboscopes competition. The overall standard of processing was high which made judging very difficult. 

After much discussion the Roboscopes team have came to the following decision.

First place winner is  Anunnaki with a very sympathetic process and a very close second was Martin94b who managed to go very deep on the IFN.

Anunnaki will receive 5hrs of free data for Pier 6, please DM me and I will input your job into the system. Martin94b you will receive a €30 voucher in the next few days.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you once again to everyone who took part. Look out for our next competition in the following weeks.

Regards

Peter Shah

Congratulations to the winners of this contest. Very well done.

Cheers

Manuel

Wow, this is so exciting!  I'm really honoured that you guys liked my take on this one, although to be honest if I had to do it over I would probably be trying to bring out some of the data's aspects more in the style of Peter and Martin...  I had the strange thought that if you pixel averaged all the entries together you may end up with the perfect rendition :)

The prize is fantastic and most welcome of course, but the original dataset was already quite the free gift...  I am confident that over time people are going to find out about the top quality data available for free over here and this competition will get even more popular - there really is nothing else like it around at the moment...

Thanks again guys and gals, I'm off to Telescopius to pick my target!

CS, Mike :)