Barnard's Galaxy

[prokyon]

Hi folks!

-14° declination, not first choice for an central european astrophotographer. But I have never done a dwarf galaxy and so I had to take the chance to capture NGC6822 from my balcony. 15'x14' is large enough for the 80/480 APO. There is a lot of HII stuff in, so I took Ha too.

80/480 APO, MoravianG2-8300FW, 7x600s L, 6x600s for every channel in RGB and 9x900s Ha. Of course more time especially for luminance would be good, but the weather........ http://stargazerslounge.com/public/style_emoticons/default/classic/sad.gif

full field:
http://www.starrymetalnights.at/Bilder/NGC6822.jpg

66% crop:
http://www.starrymetalnights.at/Bilder/NGC6822crop66perc.jpg

100% crop:
http://www.starrymetalnights.at/Bilder/NGC6822crop100perc.jpg



Halpha:
http://www.starrymetalnights.at/Bilder/NGC6822crop_Ha100perc.jpg

despite the short exposure time the inverted image shows the galactic cirrus:

http://www.starrymetalnights.at/Bilder/NGC6822_zirrus.jpg


Regards

Werner

[multiweb]

Very nicely done Werner. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Cool target and a nice image, Werner!

[glenc]

Nice to see something different, well done Werner.

[el_draco]

Looks like a tiny LMC. Really good image!