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Old 11-07-2019, 07:14 PM
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NGC 6744 Spiral Galaxy in Pavo

My first image of NGC 6744 large spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pavo
It’s a magnitude 9 galaxy about 25 million light years from earth
The most dimmest object I’ve imaged to date
Seeing conditions average with a 40% waxing moon during the first hour of capture
40 x 5 minute dithered subs
20 x darks
8” f5 Bintel GSO newt
EQ6-R Mount
Canon 600D unmodded with Baader coma corrector
Goto and tracking EQMOD StellariumScope and Stellarium
PHD2 guiding around 1 arc sec error
Captured via BYEOS
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools

Thanks for looking , comments welcome
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Old 11-07-2019, 07:44 PM
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Nicely done there Martin.
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Old 11-07-2019, 07:46 PM
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Great image Martin. The colours look spot on.
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Old 12-07-2019, 07:13 AM
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Fantastic Martin...you knocked it out of the park with this one.
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Old 12-07-2019, 08:59 AM
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Thanks for the kind comments Gavin, Anthony and Alex

This object is a dim sucker , had a little bit of trouble finding it with the moon around but the 8” did the job ok

I noticed in the image what looks like 2 other galaxies ( faint fuzzies) to the east and south west of the Galaxy

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Old 12-07-2019, 09:50 AM
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Love the colour and detail in the image Martin.

You can even see the faint spiral arms radiating out which is amazing.
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Old 12-07-2019, 11:00 AM
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Pretty nice image of the low surface brightness galaxy. Might be being a bit picky here but there seems to be an odd red mottling in the galaxy, don't think it is all Ha regions, maybe something to do with the processing. Possible artifacts not withstanding, it is still a nice image that I'd be more than happy to have captured.
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Old 12-07-2019, 12:38 PM
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Fantastic and beautiful!
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Old 12-07-2019, 01:57 PM
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Thanks Jeff
Probably some random unassigned pixels as I stretched this one to the limit , you can’t see them at normal view only when you zoom in

Steve
Thanks for the kind comment

Gives you a lot of confidence in your equipment and your ability plus a bit of luck thrown in when you nail a dim Galaxy especially with moon glow around. It’s a shame I couldn’t get down to my dark site 3 or 4 days earlier when the moon had less impact. Finished my darks at around 2.45am but all worth it in the long run
Very humbled and pleasing to receive so many nice comments
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