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Old 03-05-2005, 05:24 AM
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May Challenge Image - M104

Hi all.

We'd love you to take part in the May Imaging Challenge. Please post your deep-space images of M104 in this thread. Discussions about the images can also be in this thread.

Please ensure the image obeys the image posting guidelines when you attach them.

For observation reports and sketches of the object, see the "Space & Astronomy Talk" forum.
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Old 03-05-2005, 09:00 AM
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2 x 2minutes
D70 ISO 1000
LX200 10" GPS
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Old 03-05-2005, 10:14 AM
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Ooo! nice start paul!
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Old 03-05-2005, 11:42 AM
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The race is on.. Nice shot Paul.
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Old 03-05-2005, 06:57 PM
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OK, dug one out from July last year.
As best as I can tell, 2 x 4 minute exposures, at ISO1250, Nikon D100. Scope is either the 10" f5 newt homebrew, or the equally homebrewed MN76 Mak/Newt. (I should write things down).
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Old 03-05-2005, 07:44 PM
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An amazing and unique object isnt it. Is there any other galaxy that looks like it?
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Old 06-05-2005, 11:24 AM
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Hi all, Here's one from 20th March 2005. Taken with an Intes MN61 (6" f6 Maksutov-Newtonian) and SBIG St10xe. Total exposure time was 220 minutes.
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Old 06-05-2005, 11:27 AM
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Wow, makes mine look like a mistake.
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Old 06-05-2005, 11:38 AM
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That is a top shot Eddie, very nice, and Paul there is nothing wrong with your "mistake" it is a mighty fine one to me.
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Old 06-05-2005, 05:40 PM
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Thanks Peter and Paul. Paul, don't worry I have plenty of shots of this galaxy that are worse than yours! I've been taking images of this one every year for the last eight years
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Old 06-05-2005, 06:09 PM
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No it's OK Eddie, This has just made me want to take multiple images. Maybe 20 at 2 minutes. If tonight does not go too late that is what I am going to do. Either that or M83. Here's hoping the skies are good tonight.
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Old 06-05-2005, 06:23 PM
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That is the trick Paul. Signal-to-noise ratio is almost everything. I discovered that a few years ago. You can just never have too much signal. I've been known to spend a month or more on one object!

Good luck for tonight, it's currently raining here so doesn't look good for me!
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Old 06-05-2005, 06:32 PM
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Nice shots everyone, This galaxy has sentimental value for me, first galaxy I found from light polluted skies (2km from Adelaide CBD) in a 4" Reflector.
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Old 06-05-2005, 06:46 PM
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Man what a halo in that shot Eddie and check out the dust lane !


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I think eddie has found a way to tap into the HST optics
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Thanks Louie and Andrew! This one was a bit of a test shot for the MN61 after installing a new focuser. I'm really happy with this scope, though it's hardly a Hubble Andrew. I tried to launch it with my Estes model rocket but found the power cables were too short for orbit
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Eddie,

Your shot just blows me away! Not coz it's better than Gary's or Paul's (I like all of them) but because it looks like it is just hanging there in space!!!! Awesome!
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Old 09-05-2005, 09:10 PM
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Thanks Ken. It's an awesome object for sure. Well worth imaging again and again. Something tells me it's not the last shot of it that I'm going to take
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Old 09-05-2005, 09:39 PM
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Come on fellas, Eddie must have air Brushed it on the background of Gary's photo


Fantastic shot
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Here's what M104 looks like through an ETX 70 and a modified webcam
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