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[allan gould]

I was looking for something to image last night but the moon came up while gathering these subs with the Meade 10"SCT but I really think it deserves a far greater effort on my behalf as this area is just swimming with a host of small galaxies as well as the principal ones. Not up to Ken Crawford's standards but it will be promising in the end.
This was a test close up of 10x5min L subs (2x2) to see what detail was available but I'm going back to do a longer and slightly wider set of images.
Comments welcomed.

[ozstronomer]

Nice work Allan, the main galaxy show plenty of detail, as you suggested, longer subs would be the go.

Would be interested in seeing some RGB data from a dark site..should really pop.

Geoff

[RickS]

There's so many cool galaxies and that's another great one, Allan!

[allan gould]

May have to get out of the city and go to Dukadang at the end of the month. Would love to get Ken Crawford's tidal tails as well as RGB data



Thanks Rick but Im going to go wider and deeper on ths one tonight.

[stanlite]

nice work allan

[allan gould]

Thanks for that Grady - see you at Astrofest?
Allan

[stanlite]

yep will be there this year looking like the whole week to ;)

Got SGP down pat now and a dew system for the primary on my newt so should be good to be able to image beyond 1am lol

[allan gould]

Just settling down to imaging some more galaxies tonight and my transformer blew its brains out.
Oh well another trip to Jaycar - just lucky it didnt happen at Duckadang.

[h0ughy]

:rofl: always have a spare. nice image too

[SkyViking]

That's looking promising indeed :) Hope you get a deep image of this area, that would be great.