Antennae Galaxies NGC 4038/9

[Geoff45]

This image combines data I took in 2016 and, more recently, at the April new moon this year. Seeing was never particularly good and there were problems with a star flare--you can still see some signs of it in the processed image. Quite a lot of data hit the trash can.
Image here https://www.astrobin.com/343250/
with higher res here https://www.astrobin.com/full/343250/0/


Telescope: 12.5" PlaneWave CDK
Mount AP900
Camera: FLI Proline 16803 @-30deg
Exposure: 9.5 hours
FOV: 35' x 35' (Cropped)
Processing: PixInsight

[LewisM]

That's a nice shot Geoff! I might try it one day.

[Atmos]

Still a result to be pleased with :)

[Placidus]

That's truly excellent, Geoff. The faintest features are there. The detail in the core is great, and the handling of colour is beautiful - bright star colours but clean background.

Well done.

[RickS]

An excellent result, Geoff. Love the colours!

[Joshua Bunn]

Nice one Geoff, really liking those colours!

[gregbradley]

Very nice Geoff. A few out of field bright star flares from the left side are impinging a bit though. Does your CDK have all the baffles that seemed to get developed later on? Mine largely stopped doing that with the baffle kit.

Greg.

[willik]

Looks good colour and detail
Martin

[Geoff45]

Thanks Lewis. Not an easy target, but tht's part of the fun.


Thanks Colin. It did come out better than expected when I was processing

Thanks Mike and Trish


Thanks Rick. I found that the arcsinh stretch in PI did a very food job on preserving the colours in the RGB image

Thanks Joshua

I did fit the baffles, but it didn't solve the problem completely but the was an improvement.

Thanks Martin

[strongmanmike]

Nice job Geoff, despite the seeing, with lovely colours :thumbsup:

Mike

[atalas]

Splendid Geoff :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Thanks Mike. Colours are always a bit of a gamble--you try this and that and they look crap then suddenly something happens in the bumbling around and great colour leaps out.


Thanks Louie

[Paul Haese]

I also like the colour, seeing can be pain though.