Ngc 300

[Geoff45]

Well, between the weather, some equipment trouble, buying and selling houses and moving, it's been a lean few months in the astroimaging department. This one was taken over several nights in September and October.
See link here http://www.astrobin.com/320390/B/?nc=user and a higher res here https://www.astrobin.com/full/320390/B/

Quite a nice object but low surface brightness. Besides the main galaxy there are at least another 55 other galaxies in the field.
Details:
Telescope: 12.5" Plane wave
Mount: AP900
Camera: FLI 16803 Proline
Exposure: About 11 hours
Processing: PixInsight

[alpal]

Nice job Geoff,
You've got all the faint parts of the galaxy.
You could even do some more processing on that pic to jazz it up? -
- improve the mottled background & add more saturation to the galaxy.

cheers
Allan

[Geoff45]

Thanks Allan. Yes, I agree that the background needs fixing. Shouldn't be too difficult.
Geoff
Edit: New image uploaded to Astrobin

[traveller]

Great job there Geoff,
plenty of background fuzzies, NGC300 is a sure faint sucker.
Bo

[gregbradley]

Boy that is a really nice image of NGC300. Love it. Very compelling.
It would look great framed.

Greg.

[Geoff45]

Took up some of your suggestions Allan



Thanks Bo. Yes, lots of fuzzies. My plate solve showed up 55 +ngc300, but there are probably a few more

Thanks muchly Greg

[willik]

Very nice image good detail not a easy target
Martin

[Placidus]

Awesome! Excellent colour and depth.

[alpal]

Good - that looks even better now.

cheers
Allan

[strongmanmike]

Very nice image Geoff, I always considered NGC 300 a little boring but several versions have cropped up in the recent year or so that have changed my mind...and this is one of'em :thumbsup:

Mike

[Geoff45]

Thanks Mike. One of the interesting things about ngc300 is that it is a boringly normal spiral galaxy. Nothing surprising in the spiral arms, no starbursts, well defined normal core. So typical that it's quite exceptional.

[RobF]

Really nice work Geoff.

Peanut gallery suggestion - might be time to take some Ha and go nuts emphasising the H2 regions perhaps? :question:

[marc4darkskies]

An excellent rendition Geoff! Colours and detail are very compelling. Very nicely done! :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Thanks Martin. It was made even more difficult by the same stray light artifact in each of my master lights. Took a lot lot fiddling to subdue it.


Thanks Mike and Trish.


Yes Rob. I did take some Ha but not enough to make an appreciable difference. I may try taking some more.


Thanks a lot Marcus.

[Flugel88]

looks very nice Geoff i notice in other images of NGC 300 there isn't a great deal of colour but you have manged to capture some nice vibrancy.

[RickS]

That's a great NGC 300, Geoff :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Thanks Michael and Rick.