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Old 07-08-2016, 05:08 PM
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The Pavo Galaxy - NGC 6744 (added a core close up)

With clear nights with no Moon, work or family commitments getting in the road not exactly in abundance..aaand being inherently laaazy ...I decided to move away from tiny planetary nebs and shoot something I could nab reasonably well in a single night..and I just managed to squeeeeze this in one

So to get the annual NGC 6744 season rolling... here she is

As most would know this galaxy has a rather low surface brightness, especially those outer really faint arms that spread a fair way out from the main body of the galaxy so, as always, I tried to reveal as much as possible while keeping the relative brightnesses accurate with global stretching only.

The Pavo Galaxy

A higher contrast stretch of the over 6hrs of Luminance data shows the extent of the very faintest outer spiral arms and details and even some very faint Milky Way cirrus dust.

Close up study of the core reveals the inner dust lane goes right to the very bright core

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Old 07-08-2016, 05:12 PM
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That's really nice Mike, trounced my attempt at it a few months back! Very nicely resolved.
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Old 07-08-2016, 05:24 PM
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Nice detail in the core Mike.
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Old 07-08-2016, 05:36 PM
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Good one Mike
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Old 07-08-2016, 06:19 PM
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Wow! The fine spiralling dust lanes close in to the core are amazing.
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Old 07-08-2016, 07:30 PM
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You are a one night wonder Mike!

Well done!
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Old 07-08-2016, 07:53 PM
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A fine result, Mike, especially for a single night. Lovely detail!
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Old 07-08-2016, 08:02 PM
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That is indeed impressive for only one night Mike!

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Old 07-08-2016, 08:20 PM
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That looks great Mike. This one is my favourite southern galaxy.

I also see the hint of a spiral arm right up the top a bit to the right. I haven't seen that before.

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Old 07-08-2016, 08:53 PM
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Wow! The fine spiralling dust lanes close in to the core are amazing.

I agree - there is detail in the core that is not in this APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140808.html


well done Mike.

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Old 08-08-2016, 05:06 AM
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Lovely. Fills the FOV nicely.
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Old 08-08-2016, 07:18 AM
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Great work Mike! I've imaged that once before and that's an excellent result, even more so for one night of data. What's the sky like where this was captured? Dark?

I've been planning on having another shot at this soon, just been waiting for it to get high enough. Although, it's a toss up, do I redo this or have a crack at Barnard's galaxy?
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Old 08-08-2016, 11:39 AM
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Thanks for the feedback everyone

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You are a one night wonder Mike!

Well done!
Cheers,
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Cheers Tim....hopefully I will be able to manage a few more hits than Paul Lekakis...?

...great song....

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That looks great Mike. This one is my favourite southern galaxy.

I also see the hint of a spiral arm right up the top a bit to the right. I haven't seen that before.

Greg.
Yes noticed that too, it shows well if you highly stretch the data, as does the huge faint curved arm on the far right

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I agree - there is detail in the core that is not in this APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140808.html


well done Mike.

cheers
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Thanks Al ..and Don's was 17.5hrs taken from Coona with a 20" CDK too

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Great work Mike! I've imaged that once before and that's an excellent result, even more so for one night of data. What's the sky like where this was captured? Dark?

I've been planning on having another shot at this soon, just been waiting for it to get high enough. Although, it's a toss up, do I redo this or have a crack at Barnard's galaxy?
Cheers Lee, my skies are quite good, about Bortel 3.5 overall but much darker to the North and West

Well, Barnards galaxy sits in a very faint but beautiful field of faint striated Milky Way dust...so I recon have a shot for that!

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Old 08-08-2016, 12:12 PM
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Looks great Mike! Colours look quite natural too!

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Old 08-08-2016, 03:05 PM
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Looks great Mike! Colours look quite natural too!

Cheers, Marcus
I'll take that one from you then Marcus , you are one I always wait to hear from about my..?.. colourfulness in galaxies

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Old 08-08-2016, 09:27 PM
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Thanks for posting Mike. A great example of NGC 6744. I will use this as a benchmark for data I'm capturing on this object at the moment.

I see that there is no Ha data included. Does this mean that there is none worth bothering with for this object?
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Another stunner!
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Old 09-08-2016, 08:48 AM
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Thanks for posting Mike. A great example of NGC 6744. I will use this as a benchmark for data I'm capturing on this object at the moment.

I see that there is no Ha data included. Does this mean that there is none worth bothering with for this object?
Cheers Rod, I did consider getting some Ha but I ran out of time (would have had to stretch it to two nights ) ...may still get some yet, still, was happy with the general colour distribution revealed within the galaxy none the less.

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Another stunner!
Thanks JJJ

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Wow,
Really nice and detailed!
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Old 10-08-2016, 05:33 PM
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Really nice and detailed!
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Cheers Fab, I was happy with the detail

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