Oh no not another NGC 6744

[sjastro]

LRGB IMAGE 4.5 hrs L, 1 hr R,1 hr G, 1 hr B, ST-10XME, BRC-250

Played around with Pixelinsight on the NGC 6744 data to see if it worth purchasing.

It is a poor image as the colour doesn't look right.

Higher resolution here.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/ngc6744nccopy.html

Clear skies

Steven

[gregbradley]

Wow, you really got a lot signal there. Colour is a tad too cyan in spots. Its an ellusive target this one.

Greg.

[Lee]

Looks great to me!
Starry Night reports it Mag 15, Wikipedia Mag 9 ?? I'll give this one a go, but if its Mag 15 at that size, I might pass!

[RickS]

Good detail, Steven. A bit of tweaking on the colour and it would look great.

[sjastro]

Thanks for the feedback.

NGC 6744 tweaked by removing some cyan.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/ngc6744nccopy.html

Regards

Steven

[blink138]

nice steven I jotted this one down a few nights ago to image on the next new moon....... if ever there will be one in perth!
what is at the end of the spiral arm at 11 oclock? is it another distant galaxy or part of the spiral?......... unusual
fab image
pat

[atalas]

Great effort on a toughy Steven.

[RickS]

It's a companion galaxy, NGC 6744A.

[sjastro]

Thanks Pat, Louie, Rick.

Regards

Steven

[Larryp]

Looks great, Steven-lots of nice detail there, and colours definitely better in the second one

[Shiraz]

Nice work Steven. This sure is a difficult galaxy and you have the faint bits. Colour balancing on this dim stuff sure is problematic - if you work out a foolproof method, please post it... regards Ray

[Bassnut]

Ive found this one difficult too. Given the amount of data on such a dim galaxy thats pretty deep, and the colour balance is OK, I just couldnt get "brown" highlights in the core at all.

[PRejto]

I wouldn't say "oh no..." I'd say "oh boy what a great image!" Very nice!!

Peter

[sjastro]

Fred, Ray

I think this is one of those objects that requires significantly longer colour exposures.
My rule of thumb of using 1 hr for each of the colour channels works for most objects...... NGC 6744 isn't one of them.



Thanks Peter.

Clear skies

Steven

[Ross G]

A great looking galaxy photo Steven.


Ross.

[sjastro]

Thanks Ross.

Regards

Steven

[marco]

Quote, an excellent image!

Clear skies
Marco

[sjastro]

Thanks Marco,

Clear skies

Steven

[multiweb]

Beautiful shot Steven. Really nice colors. :thumbsup:

[White Rabbit]

Lovely shot, have added this to my todo list if its not too faint for my humble 102mm refractor.

[sjastro]

Thanks White Rabbit and Marc,

Clear skies

Steven

[bloodhound31]

I'd be happy with that.

[sjastro]

Thanks Bloodhound31.

Clear skies

Steven

[naskies]

Nice one, Steven. You've got a bit of a 3D look going there. Out of curiosity, did you calibrate this with flat frames?

[sjastro]

Dave,

The sub exposures were flat field corrected.

Regards

Steven

[rogerg]

I reckon that's an awesome image ... I'd be happy with that colour, if I could get even that good a balance with my LRGB images :)

[sjastro]

Thank you for your comment Roger.

Clear skies

Steven