Arp 93 Colliding Galaxies NGC7284 and NGC7285

[furgle (Adam)]

Image:

• 74x 400s luminance
• 14x 150s red
• 22x 150s green
• 20x 150s blue

Total integration 8 hours 30 minutes.
Better resolution here


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 3 nights. New Moon.

Software:

• Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
• Captured with TheSkyX Professional
• Guiding with PHD2
• FocusLock live focusing
• PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, color calibration, light deconvolution, reduce noise, LRGB combination, background neutralization, SCNR green, histogram stretch, curves.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Nice shot of a really fascinating pair of colliding galaxies Adam, they are doing a close tango for sure! I shot them exactly a year ago myself, good to see them being hit by other imagers, they deserve the attention

Mike

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Mike: So impressive. Love the faint swirly extensions which you have shown go out a long way.

Trish: Inspiring. We've got to do this as soon as possible.

[Atmos (Colin)]

That's an interesting interacting pair Adam, very well done under the light polluted suburbs
I love the fainter tidal streams that can be seen above the interacting pair.

[alpal]

Hi Adam,
well done - I can't find any better pictures using Google
but maybe there's something I haven't found?

It makes we wish that there were a dozen Hubble telescopes
so that we could all get a closer look at these remarkable objects.
Certainly if imagers like M&T had a go they'd end up
with the best picture ever taken.



cheers
Allan

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

What an amazing image Adam!

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Nice one Adam. The Arp objects are a mine of interesting stuff.
Geoff

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Stunning and a lovely fit for the field of the C11. I like the swirling extension around the galaxy and all the background companions.

[Paul Haese]

Adam, on my monitor I can see a huge tidal area of dust and stars north of the pair. That is another cool galaxy imaging target. Well done.

[alpal]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Adam,
well done - I can't find any better pictures using Google
but maybe there's something I haven't found?

It makes we wish that there were a dozen Hubble telescopes
so that we could all get a closer look at these remarkable objects.
Certainly if imagers like M&T had a go they'd end up
with the best picture ever taken.

cheers
Allan

I made a mistake.
Google let me down & so did here:
http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc72a.htm#7285


There is a close up pic from CHART 32 here:
http://www.chart32.de/images/phocaga...es/ngc7285.jpg




cheers
Allan

[markas (Mark)]

Very fine rendition of an interesting target.


Mark

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Awesome shot, Adam. Haven't seen these before. Lovely field with some very cool background fuzzies. Thanks for sharing!