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[Shiraz (Ray)]

Hi

only got parts of a couple of clear nights for this, but the skies were pretty transparent, so that helped. Used bin2x2 for the colour, to fit into the short available time - seemed to work OK.

It is a really pretty object but there is a wide variety of approaches to the colour on the web - ended up just letting PI do it's thing.
http://astrob.in/228958/0/
full size: http://www.astrobin.com/full/228958/0/?real=&mod=

thanks for looking. Regards ray

[RickS (Rick)]

Looks like PI did it's thing well, Ray! Love the colour and detail.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Somnium (Aidan)]

wow, really nice image ray, the 2x2 doesn't seem to have impact the quality at all. great stuff

[glenc (Glen)]

Magnificent

[multiweb (Marc)]

That looks cool Ray. Up to your sublime usual standard. You make it look too easy mate.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

This is seriously good image, well done Ray

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Great work, Ray! Love this galaxy, it's been on my to-do list for a while now, and you've done a great job.

[topheart]

Awesome job again Ray !!

Cheers,
Tim

[batema (Mark)]

Beautiful image. Great detail.

Mark

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Everything about that shot is beautiful. Flawless colour. Sharp detail right into the core. Several clean super-faint distant galaxies. Most enjoyable viewing.

Best,
Mike and Trish

[Atmos (Colin)]

That's a great shot there Ray! It is on my current list of no moon galaxies, you've given me something to strive for :-)

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Very nice work Ray This is one of my favorite galaxies! With the right field of view and processing (like yours) it's a jewel floating on a sea of background galaxies. Lovely!

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Just repeating what everyone else has said in case you didn't get the message - beautiful image Ray.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Looks like PI did it's thing well, Ray! Love the colour and detail.

Cheers,
Rick.

thanks Rick - relying on PI more and more these days

Originally Posted by Somnium

wow, really nice image ray, the 2x2 doesn't seem to have impact the quality at all. great stuff

Thanks Aidan - the binning worked out better than expected, but the seeing was pretty good. Previously I have tried to bin the colour in crap seeing and it hasn't worked so well.

Originally Posted by glenc

Magnificent

many thanks Glen.

Originally Posted by multiweb

That looks cool Ray. Up to your sublime usual standard. You make it look too easy mate.

thanks Marc. appreciated

Originally Posted by Slawomir

This is seriously good image, well done Ray

thank you very much Slawomir.

Originally Posted by codemonkey

Great work, Ray! Love this galaxy, it's been on my to-do list for a while now, and you've done a great job.

Thanks lee. I hadn't imaged it before either - it's a pretty galaxy.

Originally Posted by topheart

Awesome job again Ray !!

Cheers,
Tim

thanks a lot Tim.

Originally Posted by batema

Beautiful image. Great detail.

Mark

thanks very much Mark

Originally Posted by Placidus

Everything about that shot is beautiful. Flawless colour. Sharp detail right into the core. Several clean super-faint distant galaxies. Most enjoyable viewing.

Best,
Mike and Trish

Thanks M&T. Very glad you found it enjoyable - makes posting worthwhile.

Originally Posted by Atmos

That's a great shot there Ray! It is on my current list of no moon galaxies, you've given me something to strive for :-)

Go for it Colin - looking forward to your image.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Very nice work Ray This is one of my favorite galaxies! With the right field of view and processing (like yours) it's a jewel floating on a sea of background galaxies. Lovely!

Thanks Marcus. That's a neat way to describe it - it is a very jewel-like galaxy. It would probably be more lustrous looking with more data, but this was as much as I could get.

Originally Posted by Regulus

Just repeating what everyone else has said in case you didn't get the message - beautiful image Ray.

thanks very much Trevor

regards Ray

[Fabiomax (Fabiomassimo)]

Beautiful details, colours and deep ! Great image,
Cheers,
Fabiomax

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Fabiomax

Beautiful details, colours and deep ! Great image,
Cheers,
Fabiomax

thank you Fabio. Don't think that there is anything here that is as far away as your QSO at Z=2.81 though

[DJT (David)]

beautiful image. Faint fuzzies everywhere. But the main object is really well done. Top Job

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Superb!

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Very Very nice image there Ray, I'm going to have to try harder

[Amaranthus (Barry)]

Lovely work Ray! I have the same scope, and the same sensor (on a QHY) - something to which I can aspire in the future!