[Qld Astrofest 2015] NGC253 Sculptor Galaxy

[troypiggo]

506mm is not quite the focal length ideal for galaxies, but this one was in the right part of the sky, and is bright and big enough that I hope I did it some justice. Was amazed at the number of galaxies visible in the wider field when viewed full size.

Full size image (http://astrob.in/full/202329/0/?real=&mod=None)

[AlexN]

Nice troy!!

I like wide shots of galaxies. I did NGC 4945 at 480mm with my TMB 80/480 and was blown away when I found 39 galaxies in the frame.

[Slawomir]

Very nice Troy :thumbsup:

Happy that you guys have great weather at Astrofest.

[peter_4059]

Looks good Troy. A great Astrofest with some of the best weather I can remember. I reckon we are going to see a few NGC253 images this week.

[ozstronomer]

Nice shot Troy, weather was great right through and it wasn't until early Sunday morning before the fog rolled in.

[troypiggo]

Thanks guys. Another Astrofest down, another year to look forward to the next one ;)

[troypiggo]

For fun, I used PI's annotate image script to assist locating background galaxies. Close to 100! Annotated image here (http://piggo.com/images/NGC253_annotated.jpg).

[codemonkey]

Nice work Troy! I actually prefer wider fields with galaxies and I think this is a nice FOV.

Only thing I might suggest, and it might just be me, but I'd probably pull that background back a touch using curves. To me it's a bit brighter than it needs to be and it makes it look a little noisier than it otherwise would.



Wow, that's awesome! I'm used to seeing 10-20, but close to 100.....

[h0ughy]

lovely work Troy - glad to see all the instruction from the bench helped in gaining this shot ;)

also love the annotation feature

[multiweb]

PFG. Love the colors and all the background faint fuzzies. Epic. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Wow great result Troy...looks just like Peter's :lol:...NGC 253 is such a crowd pleaser and nice to see the outer halo showing up in so many shots of this galaxy these days :thumbsup:

Mike

[RobF]

Mind boggling the number of galaxies in this frame. Bravo - the shorter focal length has really paid off! :thumbsup:

[troypiggo]

Thanks guys.