Whale There she blows!!!

[Dietmar]

Hi guys!

it's been a while since my last post in this forum.
Luckily I have something to present today.

Torsten Grossmann, my friend from Berlin and me, we collected some keen data on the whale galaxy.
Torsten utilized his 7" Apo and I my 9"er.
The data I collected, however, is "old"...dationg back to 2007; a night with gorgeous seeing. I used my OSC (M25C) those days back.
Torsten used an SBIG based upon a KF2044 sensor.

Luminance data: 15x20 Min
R,B data: 2x2 binning 9x7 min
G data: 2x2 binning 9x6 min

OSC data: 3,5 hours (10 min subs)

Unfortunaltey we had to crop the image dramatically, because we had troubles finding a decent guide-star (Sbig)...so ngc4631 was pretty much off center...well, you cannot win them all (-:

The image can be found on my website
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/NGC4631.html

as well as here: here we go!

http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/astropics/deepsky/galaxies/NGC4631-1150.jpg

[h0ughy]

looks a stunning image - old data or not it must be the more mature image processing as well

[jakob]

What a beautiful, stunning, image! :eyepop::eyepop:
Thanks for sharing.

Jakob.

[Craige]

Wow that is very cool!

[Larryp]

Very nice!

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Dietmar.

Ross.

[multiweb]

Ha! That's soooo cool! It is a whale. :thumbsup:

[David Fitz-Henr]

That looks great - well done Torsten & Dietz! :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

That's superb image of the Whale. Really nice.

Greg.

[Paul Haese]

I saw this on Facebook and thought it quite beautiful. Well done.

[seeker372011]

Lovely colours, a most attractive image

[allan gould]

A beautiful and detailed image of this object. One of the best I have seen. Congratulations are well deserved.

[Dietmar]

thanks guys!

here is a version with slight enhacement of details and colors here and there (-:

http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/NGC4631-crop.html

[RobF]

Quite extraordinary really. Amazing detail, and looks even more like a whale than any other pic I've ever seen! :)

[CoolhandJo]

Fantastic and visually stunning object and capture - well done