Ngc 300

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

About 9 hours on NGC 300 (6 hours luminance) taken at a dark sky site in the southern Flinders ranges in SA last weekend. Cloud + wind meant that this was the only data/object I managed to gather

Taken with a ZWO ASI1600MM-C on a GSO RC8 + Astro-Physics Mach1.

Higher res version available on Astrobin here.

Comments/suggestions welcome as always.

Paul

[willik (Willik)]

Looks good Paul I like it nice image.
Martin

[p1taylor]

Very nice Paul.

peter

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Paul, that is splendid! Very well acquired and processed. Beautiful to see.

[Atmos (Colin)]

As a faint galaxy, the 6 hours of luminance really helps it pop from the background

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nailed it! Top notch Paul.
Love that little galaxy cluster at 10 o'clock and all the background faint fuzzies. You must have got some decent seing.

[topheart]

Very well done!!
Cheers,
Tim

[Imme (Jon)]

Great image....really enjoy seeing faint galaxies in the background, really puts things in perspective (how small we are!)

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Very nicely done, great detail there

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Absolutely beautiful image. Well done.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Overall looks pretty good Paul, nice job on this perennial favourite of ours

A dark site in the southern Flinders Ranges huh?...niiiice

Mike

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thanks guys!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Love that little galaxy cluster at 10 o'clock and all the background faint fuzzies. You must have got some decent seing.

I noticed that the FWHM for the luminance got down to a tad over 2" for some subs, and averaged (in the data I kept) about 2.4". A couple of the red channel subs made it under 2". So, yeah. I think seeing was ok - wind was the main issue keeping the FWHMs a bit high.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A dark site in the southern Flinders Ranges huh?...niiiice

Not too far from civilisation … or at least Adelaide!

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's a very fine image of a faint surface brightness galaxy. Love it.

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thank you Kevin.

[Capella_Ben (Ben)]

Really nice. I'm hoping to give this a go with my RC8 as well. Just need some clear dark skies!

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by Capella_Ben

Really nice. I'm hoping to give this a go with my RC8 as well. Just need some clear dark skies!

Thanks Ben. Good luck with the skies!!

[RickS (Rick)]

That's a really nice NGC 300, Paul!

[Jeff]

Lovely work Paul.

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thanks Rick and Jeff.

[DaveNZ (Dave)]

Impressive image Paul.

Nice detail and colour. The faint fuzzies really set it off.

Nice mount you have there.

Dave