NGC 346 in the LMC

[tornado33]

Hi all
Imaged this earlier tonight
4x20 minutes ISO 400, 10 inch F5.6 Newtonian IDAS uv/ir and Baader UHC-S filters, with MPCC, modded 350D. Warm night, but quite dry. Hand guided as usual, processed in Iris, PS and Noiseware
Larger version here
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/ncg346%204x20mins%20iso400%20uhcs%2 010inch_filtered.jpg
Scott

[jase]

Nice work Scott. NGC 346 isn't an easy object to get a lot of detail from, but you have certainly succeeded here.:)

[Garyh]

Great image, and top guiding there Scott...I bet you had lots of noise to remove being a warm night as well...well done!!

[Ric]

Hi Scott, thats a great image, great colours and details

cheers

[tornado33]

Thanks all
Yes there was a fair amount of hot pixels, but Iris does a great job of removing them, even if the darks were not taken at same temperature, one draws a small box on a dark area of sky with no stars in the box, just hot pixels, Iris then adjusts things to see that the proper amount of subtraction is done, without either leaving too much noise, or dark spots caused by too much subtraction. Was nice and warm siting there guiding lol.
seeing wasnt the best though, in the warm air, somewhat unstable.
Scott