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BruceG

29-09-2014, 10:57 PM

Well here's my attempt at Sculptor Galaxy. Its about 50% cropped to get some image scale. Could do with more data (as usual) I had 40 frames of 3 minutes but deleted 10 that were not great (some elongated stars and some with a bumped mount). Result was about 90 minutes at ISO 1600 with the un-modded 1000D.
Higher resolution HERE (http://www.astrobin.com/123877/)

LightningNZ

29-09-2014, 11:55 PM

Nice work Bruce, looks darn good to me! One thing about having that wide field is that it'd make a very 2 frame mosaic with NGC 288. I can just get the two of them in one field with my AT65EDQ and DSLR.

MortonH

30-09-2014, 12:20 AM

Great result

cometcatcher

30-09-2014, 12:55 AM

Lots of detail there. Well done.

raymo

30-09-2014, 02:35 AM

Really nice Bruce.
raymo

ZeroID

30-09-2014, 05:28 AM

Nice one !! Excellent detail, colour and contrast. Well done.

codemonkey

30-09-2014, 06:13 AM

Nice one! This is my next target after NGC 55.

BruceG

30-09-2014, 02:07 PM

Thanks Cam, but I wouldn't know the first thing about creating a mosaic :P
I'm guessing the mosaic has to be stitched together after calibrating and pre-processing of the 2 images and then post processed as one image?

Thanks Moreton, Kevin, Raymo, Brent and Lee. Glad you all seem to like it.
Bruce.