NGC2903 in Leo

[RickS]

A nice barred spiral in HaLRGB.

Captured at SRO, 6 Feb - 29 Mar, 2016

Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (0.843 arcsec/pixel after Drizzle/resample)
Exposures: 38x600s L, 22x1200s R, 14x1200s G, 22x1200s B, 13x1800s Ha (~32 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8

Acquisition credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Leonardo Orazi, Rob Pfile, Rick Stevenson and Jerry Yesavage.
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson

Full res/full field via Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/245560/

Thanks for looking. The full field is worth exploring. There are some lovely little galaxies (some examples in the attached crop.)

Cheers,
Rick.

[Atmos]

Fantastic image Rick, so many faint and not so many faint galaxies in the background. The galaxy is nicely resolved. The stars in general to me a reminiscent of the Jewel Box Cluster :)

[alpal]

Hi Rick,
that's a wonderful picture of NGC 2903 & plenty of other galaxies too -
real eye candy.

Thanks for sharing.

cheers
Allan

[strongmanmike]

That was a fun few minutes I had scanning the full res image :thumbsup: lot's of interesting background galaxies.

A lovely wide, deep and very fine galaxy field image :thumbsup:

Mike

[PRejto]

Incredible shot Rick. Bravo!!

Peter

[willik]

That is a very nice image and the colour tops

[billdan]

Absolutely beautiful Rick, heaps of different styles of galaxies and the star colour is perfect with lots of variety.

Cheers
Bill

[Placidus]

Gorgeous colour and detail. Oh for such seeing! Beautifully processed, too.

[RickS]

Thanks, Colin! There are some interesting asterisms sprinkled about the field.



and thanks, Allan.



Ta, Mike.



Thanks, Peter.



Thanks, Willik.



Thanks, Bill.



Thanks very much, M&T! We need a big scope like yours at SRO :)

[Ryderscope]

Stunning Rick. The background galaxies remind me of the Hubble deep field.
R

[RickS]

Thanks, Rodney!

[graham.hobart]

That's sooooo good Rick (and team!)
Surely that's an IOTW?:thumbsup:

[Somnium]

absolutely top notch, Amazing work

[rustigsmed]

beautiful shot Rick. the back ground galaxies are fantastic.

cheers

russ

[strongmanmike]

I agree, that B&W shot of a tiny fuzzy patch has been there for a while now :shrug:....:lol:

[RobF]

Wonderful shot Rick. Love the subtle and honest background, but the galaxies whack you in the mouth like a frozen mullet. (that's a compliment :lol:)

[gregbradley]

That's a beauty Rick.

Greg.

[Ross G]

Amazing galaxy photo Rick.

Beautiful colours and detail.

Ross.

[RickS]

Thanks, Graham :)





Thanks Aidan & Russ!



It's a very nice fuzzy patch though, Mike. I'd hate to be the one displace it :D



And a wonderful compliment too, thanks Rob :lol:





Thanks very much Greg & Ross.

[IanP]

absolutely marvelous :bowdown::bowdown:

[Paul Haese]

That's cool Rick. Island universe immediately comes to mind.

[Geoff45]

Great image Rick. As Mike mentioned above there is a lot of interesting minutes of looking packed in there.
Geoff

[RickS]

Thanks, Ian :)



Ta, Paul!



Thanks, Geoff. The field is almost better than the main subject, I reckon :D

[Slawomir]

Its a beauty Rick. I particularly like how you presented the stars in your photo. Magnificent :thumbsup:

[astronobob]

So Vivid, Sharp and Clean to gaze & ponder through Rick, talented bloke :cool2:

[RickS]

Thanks Suavi & Bob!

[ozstronomer]

Beautiful image Rick, Well done :thumbsup:

Cheers Geoff

[RickS]

Thanks, Geoff!

[Shiraz]

outstanding Rick. The main object is beautiful, but the icing on the cake is all the other background stuff - very enjoyable viewing.

[RickS]

Thanks, Ray!

[marc4darkskies]

Lovely field and image Rick! :thumbsup: Very pretty indeed!

One thing though - esp at full res - the HII regions are a bit overcooked for my taste.

Cheers, Marcus

[multiweb]

That's just beautiful Rick. Really cool. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Marcus. I agree that the Ha areas are pretty hot :)



Thanks very much, Marc.

[Stevec35]

Late on seeing this one Rick. A top effort!

Cheers

Steve

[RickS]

Thanks, Steve!