Barred Spiral NGC 7184

[furgle (Adam)]

I love the idea that these photons traveled for 114 million years, just to land on my tiny CCD chip.


Numerous background galaxies are visible, and I am quite happy with their colour showing through.


Higher resolution here



Image:

• 39x 240s luminance
• 16x 120s red
• 20x 120s green
• 22x 120s blue

Total integration 8 hours 10 minutes.
Hardware:

• Celestron 11" EdgeHD
• Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
• QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
• Astronomik luminance, deep sky RGB filters
• Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
• Starlight Xpress Active Optics
• Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
• Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II

Location:

• Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
• Imaged over 2 nights. New Moon.

Software:

• Aladin 10
• TheSkyX Professional
• PHD2 Guiding
• FocusLock
• PixInsight

[Paul Haese]

An interesting looking galaxy Adam. The detail looks good, you have gleaned a fair bit.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Thanks for posting that one Adam. Off the beaten track. A lovely result.

[Lee]

Great work.... the colours have come through well....

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Great work Adam. Exceptional detail.
The photons have come a long way almost unperturbed until a nanosecond or two through the Earth’s atmosphere. How annoying is that?

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Lovely galaxy. Makes me want to galaxy hunt more...

[furgle (Adam)]

Thanks guys.

The photons have come a long way almost unperturbed until a nanosecond or two through the Earth’s atmosphere. How annoying is that?

That got a chortle out of me.