NGC 253 Work in progress

[E_ri_k]

After managing to get the QHY9 to fit with everything else, I have started my first serious LRGB image attempt:P

The seeing was really good last night, and I collected 25x900 second frames. Only one dud!

Still need to "try" to add colour, but I think this looks promising :) Quite a few hot pixels, only used bias frames so far.

Thanks for looking, and I'll hopefully post an updated colour version soon.....
Erik

[RickS]

Looks good, Erik!

[gregbradley]

Looking really good.

Greg.

[jase]

As far as luminance data goes, its looking fantastic Erik. Keen to see the end result with colour data added, will be spectacular. Well done.

[multiweb]

Excellent details. A set of flat field and more data and you're on your way to a great shot. :thumbsup:

[E_ri_k]

Cheers guys :)

Yeah, dust doughnuts all over it haha!

[Lee]

A really great start.... seeing was really nice here too last night, not as good tonight though.

[Shiraz]

really nice detail there Erik. should be a fine image when you get some colour

[Ross G]

Hi Erik,

Looking great. Sharp with so much detail.

Good luck with it.

Ross.

[Peter Ward]

It's a pity some excellent data is being spoiled by vignetting, dust doughnuts and thermal noise.

Taking the time to get some calibtation data, ie darks and flats, will really do wonders to your data. :thumbsup:

[E_ri_k]

Thanks Peter. It definitely does need darks and flats, I haven't gotten around to doing them yet. Perhaps something to do whilst the moon is hanging about. A bit of a rushed process, was excited to see what the data with the new camera would be like:P

Erik