ngc1566

[Shiraz]

Hi

got another two good nights - the waning moon was up for some of the time, but there was very little haze, so the data was still usable, although not real deep. The seeing was pretty flash for part of it and the stacked image was well under 2 arcsec FWHM after mild deconvolution. Again used 2x2 for the colour and concentrated on getting more blue than previously.

This is quite an attractive galaxy with strings of star formation regions along the inner arms and a huge faint outer arm. It is apparently one of the Seyferts, with a strongly radiating accretion region around the central black hole.

http://www.astrobin.com/full/230064/0/?real=&mod=

Thanks for looking. Regards Ray

[Somnium]

Wow, Ray, that is stunning. well done

[Slawomir]

Wow, what a great photo Ray! Sharp, great colours, round stars to the edges. Awesome work :thumbsup:

[Placidus]

A beautiful capture.

[Atmos]

Lovely detail in the galaxy there Ray :)

[Shiraz]

thanks very much Aidan - it is a very pretty galaxy.


Thanks Slawomir - appreciate the comment.


Thanks M&T.


Hi Colin. Thank You.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Ray. Great colour and lovely detail. The back ground looks good this time.

[gregbradley]

Wow, that is a gorgeous image. Sensational Ray. The stars look very 3D as well and beautifully round and great colour. The background is very neutral.

Top stuff.

Greg.

[rmuhlack]

Another stunner there Ray! If I may ask, what are the exposure details per filter?

[Shiraz]

thanks a lot Paul.


thanks very much Greg and thank you for pointing out the issue with the last image - appreciated.



Hi Richard - thanks very much!. exposures were:
L 62 at 300s 1x1
R 44 at 180s 2x2
G 26 at 180s 2x2
B 30 at 300s 2x2

Regards Ray

[alpal]

Hi Ray,
fantastic picture & well worth all the time you put into it.

cheers
Allan

[Eden]

Excellent work, Ray. Beautiful colour and detail, very impressive. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Ah well, i get on the ship to a beaut 1365 and get off to a beaut 1566.....a great week all round i say Razzor :thumbsup:

[rustigsmed]

super nice, loving all the background galaxies. :eyepop:

[topheart]

Awesome capture and processing again Ray. I really like the colour and good details.

Cheers,
Tim

[alistairsam]

That took my breath away Ray. So beautiful and perfect.

Cheers
Alistair

[Paul Haese]

I have been back a few times to view this image at full res now. I have compared it to other images online and it compares very well. This is outstanding work Ray. It has tight detail and not over sharpened at all. I have seen a few images of this with obvious over sharpening. Worth a few looks I reckon.

[Regulus]

This is really nice Ray, in every regard. And artistically I like the way your set-up colours the diffraction spikes.
Good number of galaxies in the background that have come up nicely too.
Well done

Trev

[RickS]

Very classy, Ray! A great result.

Cheers,
Rick.

[RobF]

Absolutely top notch. Both galaxy and background star/galaxy field are stunningly rendered.
And its just plain fun to explore the field too....

:clap:

[Rod771]

Great image , Ray! Love all the tiny galaxies in the background. :thumbsup:

[Stevec35]

Only just saw this one and it's one of the best NGC 1566 images I've seen for a while. I would say whatever you are doing right now Ray keep going with it because it's obviously working great.

Cheers

Steve

[multiweb]

Great shot Ray. One for the cool wall. :thumbsup:

[Shiraz]

thanks a lot Allan - gald you enjoyed it.


thank you Eden.


Thanks Mike - we try to please.. Anyway, I just get back online and find that you are now in the pro league, so I guess that you have had a few pretty good weeks too :thumbsup:


thanks a lot Russ. yep, I love the background galaxies as well - surely we humans are not alone in this vastness.


thanks very much Tim - appreciated.


thanks for that Alistair.


Hi Paul - thanks for your carefully considered comments


Thanks Trev. The diffraction spikes seem to vary a bit with seeing - they looked pretty tight in this image.


thanks a lot Rick.


thank you Rob - glad you enjoyed the image.


thanks Rod - appreciated.


Thanks Steve - as you know, it takes a while to get stuff working together - it is nice to have a system back running again


Hi Marc. Don't have a cool wall, but am working on a few other things that this could be incuded in.

regards Ray