First Attempt at a Galaxy - NGC 5239 Southern Pinwheel

[sil (Steve)]

nice work on the pinwheel, such a beautiful target. Hope you put all your subsets together to improve the SNR to work with. Always worth going for what you can while you have the chance. The more data the better, damn the moon especially when its a new target in your collection you go after whatever you can get and deal with it all later on. its the best thing about deep space targets that you can build up a data set over months if you like. The more data the more work you can put into your postprocessing workflow and eventually the better the final image.

[Startrek (Martin)]

Thanks Steve
Yes I will be imaging the Pinwheel again as soon as the cloudy weather clears in a week ( we hope )

[Jen]

Oh Martin I feel your pain imaging with a dslr in the summertime 😖😖
Nice job for your first go at this well done keep at it and do come back to this one and try again on a cooler night. I just had a go at this recently too using similar equipment and also using startools (love this program) 😍😍

[Startrek (Martin)]

Thanks Jen
Your image looks great , nice and clean and far less noise and more detail than mine
I’m going to image this galaxy again on a cooler dark night with no moon and no mozzies around
Cheers

[Jen]

Thanks Martin 👍👍👍

I took 54x4minute subs @ISO1600 with a canon 1100D on a skywatcher ED/120 - Processed in Startools.
15 x darks
15 x flats
Bring on the cooler weather cheers 😜