2.5hrs of NGC-4945 from Snake Valley

[Astroman]

NGC-4945 From Snake Valley.

2.5hrs (10 x 60sec, 10 x 300sec, 8 x 600sec) Didn't quite get the 10, 600 second images in as cloud completely covered the sky.

Taken with a Canon 1100D (unmodded), 8" f/4 Newt.

Astrobin link : http://www.astrobin.com/full/81554/0/

[atalas]

A good effort Andrew.

[Regulus]

That surprised me! It has a real 3D effect. Nice photo.
Trevor

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Good work Andrew!:thumbsup:

Although 4945 is quite bright it's a bugger of thing to get right.

Cheers,

Justin.

[astronobob]

Nice going Andrew, your F4 is performing well :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Well Andrew that's not too bad at all, great field huh? :thumbsup:

Well done

Mike

[Astroman]

Thanks I would have loved to have gone longer on this, but the cloud had other ideas.



Thanks Trevor, muchly appreciated.



I think I still have a bit of processing to do on this Galaxy, I really don't think I have got it right yet.



Thanks Bob, yep I am really happy with it, although collimating is a bit of a pain, so critical, the scope performs as it should. Should be even better after a few modifications I plan on doing to it.



Appreciate your comments Mike, thankyou. Yes this has to be my second favorite Galaxy, I would love to be able to process it better though, I think there is still a fair amount of data there, I haven't been able to bring out.

[desler]

Very good result Andrew! The 8 inch performed nicely.

Darren

[alpal]

Hi Andrew,
Yes it seems you have good data but the processing could be improved.
Processing is difficult - after many years of processing I still struggle
sometimes & end up posting 3 or more versions till I get it right.
Every picture is so unique with it's own challenges that you almost
have to learn how to process each new picture.
I recommend Louie's fantastic videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ5b6pFHBGe66vsuSaXb-0A

cheers
Allan

[Shiraz]

good stuff Andrew - your system is working well.

[alpal]

Hi Andrew,
I hope you don't mind?
I had a play with your picture.
I reduced the brightness & size of the stars &
stretched the galaxies.
I also took colour away from the stars but added more to the galaxies &
raised the black point.
I then did an automatic gradient removal in Fitswork4.
Do you think this looks better?

cheers
Allan

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