Spiral Planetary NGC 5189

[wayne anderson]

This is my 1st attempt at this object and second attempt using the De-Rotator, the 3 min unguided subs had much sharper stars than the 5 min unguided subs so maybe 3 or 4 min unguided subs will work best for now.

Spiral Planetary NGC 5189

2 x 3 min subs at iso 800 Unguided
2 x 5 min subs at iso 800 Unguided
12” Meade LX200 at f6.3 (alt/az De-Rotated)
Sony Nex-3 dslr Camera
Processed with DeepSkyStacker, Startools and GIMP

attached is a crop and full frame image

[LightningNZ]

Great detail and colour! That's a really nice capture Wayne.
-Cam

[Camelopardalis]

Beautiful Wayne!

[rcheshire]

Interesting subject. The derotator is working well by the look of it.

[jsmoraes]

I must repeat: interesting object! It was well registered.

[blink138]

that is a most interesting object wayne and a fab colour too!
it must be tracking very well also for 5 minutes unguided
pat

[wayne anderson]

Thanks everyone, I Just downloaded the latest DeepSkyStacker 3.34, it can handle the Sony ARW raw files, I am impressed at the difference using raw files makes with the Spiral Planetary NGC 5189 image. There is a huge difference in quality so I will be using nothing but raw ARW files from now on.

[LightningNZ]

Wow! You should post that The Deep Sky images section.

[cometcatcher]

Double wow! The raw is a huge improvement.