Ngc1566

[Ric]

Hi all, I finally was able to do some imaging last Sunday after a break of some 2 months due to clouds and holidays.
The conditions were not the best, very hot and humid but I thought I'd have a go anyway to get my eye and skill level back into the swing of thins again and was pleasantly surprised with this one

NGC1566 in Dorado, mag = 9.4
30 images in lumnesence @ 21 seconds each.
Processed in MaximDL

Scope was in Alt/Az mode and tracking was with Sky Atlas Pro.
Camera was a DSI II Pro

Cheers:)

[rogerg]

21 sec... you've got far reaching spiral arms for such small individual exposures, good stuff :thumbsup: Good to see I'm not the only one that takes a week or so to get an image processed :)

[Ric]

Hi Roger, I still working my way through the Maxim software with the manual close by :lol: , so theres still a lot of trial and error going on :P .

Thanks for the comments :)

[Phil]

good work Ric love photos of gal. have to take some myself one day
thanks for sharing the photo with us
Phil

[Ric]

Thanks Phil, galaxies are one of my favourites as well.
It took me a while to stop burning out the cores :doh: but I'm getting the hang of it now.

Cheers :)

[Phil]

I myself have not taken many photos of gal as the camera i use has a very wild field of view but i will take same soon i have taken alot of neb photos which i love taken photos of to.
Phil

[Gama]

No excuses Phil, get out there and start imaging. We want at least 10 by end of next week.

[Phil]

it is cloudy at this point in time so it will not be tonight
cheers
Gama

[Gama]

WHAT ?, what happened to that old commercial on TV "Queensland, Beatiful one day, Perfect the next", or was that just to lure the japaneese tourists.

[EzyStyles]

Go DSI II! :) nice capture Ric!

[Ric]

Thanks Eric

Cheers