The Needle's Eye Galaxy

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #1 07-09-2019, 03:40 PM

NGC 247 - about 7 hours luminance and 3 x 1 hour RGB with ZWO 1600MM-C and RC8 on a Mach1.

This was at a dark sky site last weekend. The seeing was terrible, and I should've got more colour! But did my best with what I had. I love the collection of background galaxies in this field anyway.

Full res on Astrobin here. Comments welcome.

Geoff45 (Geoff) · #2 08-09-2019, 01:04 PM

Good rendition there Paul, in spite of the seeing. I think the colour os good.
Geoff

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #3 08-09-2019, 05:59 PM

Thanks Geoff.

Ryderscope (Rodney) · #4 08-09-2019, 06:01 PM

That's a nice target Paul and presents well. Lots of detail in the galaxy to explore.

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #5 09-09-2019, 08:17 AM

Thanks Rodney.

Atmos (Colin) · #6 09-09-2019, 11:24 AM

Really nice Paul, the details within the galaxy is very good

multiweb (Marc) · #7 09-09-2019, 01:04 PM

+1 Great details in the lanes.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #8 09-09-2019, 06:43 PM

Another nice shot Paulie, Burbidge's chain looks so cool

Mike

Bart · #9 09-09-2019, 07:32 PM

That is not too bad Disco, not bad at all. The small galaxy chain looks awesome!

cometcatcher (Kevin) · #10 09-09-2019, 09:41 PM

What an excellent image! It's on my redo list.

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #11 09-09-2019, 10:39 PM

Thanks Colin, Marc, Mike, Bart and Kevin.

I've reprocessed the image a bit on Astrobin to try to reduce some of the color halos/bloat on the stars. Hope it is a bit better.

Atmos (Colin) · #12 09-09-2019, 10:51 PM

There is less bloat now so that’s an improvement

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #13 09-09-2019, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atmos

There is less bloat now so that’s an improvement

Thanks

Placidus (Mike and Trish) · #14 10-09-2019, 07:54 PM

That's excellent, Paul.

Lots of gorgeous background galaxies, including the special chain toward top right.

Perhaps a touch of colour noise. That can sometimes be controlled by deconvolving and wavelet sharpening the L, but wavelet smoothing the RGB, and then combining.

Top notch image. Lovely.

MnT

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #15 11-09-2019, 08:12 AM

Thanks Mike n Trish. I'll give that a go.

Paul Haese · #16 11-09-2019, 06:38 PM

Given the data this is pretty good Paul. Loads of detail in the galaxy. Might well be my next target with the RC12. Must get up to Bendleby again sometime.

DiscoDuck (Paul) · #17 11-09-2019, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Given the data this is pretty good Paul. Loads of detail in the galaxy. Might well be my next target with the RC12. Must get up to Bendleby again sometime.

Thanks Paul. It's be great to see you up there!