Ngc 6744

[rat156]

Hi All,

A clear night in Melbourne until about 1 am.

Thwarted in completing an image of this by the clouds, but got some nice luminance data, still needs more though. The RGB that I have is very noisy and low intensity, I think this one will take a while to acquire enough data to do it justice.

Link (http://astrob.in/full/113821/0/) to larger image.

Share and Enjoy

Cheers
Stuart

[jase]

Fantastic image Stuart. Shame the weather put a stop to it. To obtain the spiral structure in two hours of data must be a real joy. Not an easy galaxy. Just checked out your gallery. Your N12 and processing has put some cracking images together. Excellent work.

[Amaranthus]

Looking terrific so far. Very sharp and contrasty.

[Peter Ward]

Really tight stars, sublime attention to focus and guiding. There are few asto-imagers in Oz who do as well. Excellent work from me as well :thumbsup:

It would be a pity to stop now.

[LewisM]

Absolutely top notch imaging. Never seen a better example.

I LOVE the fact the stars are all retained (a pet peeve is star-removed fields - I ask WHY????), the absolute sharpness and the fidelity. Keep going, and don't make it neon red or krypton blue in the RGB final image :)

[gregbradley]

Fabulous luminance.

It looks terrrific.

Greg.

[rat156]

Thanks Jase, yeah the fast scope is a boon in Melbourne, but also picks up the LP pretty well. I was surprised at how well it came out of the murk with 5 minute subs, I ended up with 10 minute sub though.



Yes Peter, you sold me a nice camera! Thanks for the encouragement. I have a slight tilt in the system which I may fix one day.



Thanks Lewis, hopefully you'll see a better example when I finish it. I'll make sure I do a lurid colour versions for you...

Starless as well.

Cheers
Stuart