Ngc104

[Bart]

Seeing as it is black and white season, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring! :lol:

The colour data I collected for this was rubbish and I don't know what the hell is going on with my flats which wouldn't calibrate so I did an L only image.

Here is NGC104 and NGC121, which I believe is a globular cluster in two different galaxies, the Milky Way and the small Magellanic Cloud.

http://www.pbase.com/grahammeyer/image/168104321/original

Cheers.

[cometcatcher]

I noticed it was B+W season lol. I'm resisting posting my L layer for now.

That's a splendid 104 you have there. I wonder what the night sky would look like living at the center of that?

[Paul Haese]

Reminds me of a few photos I took in the 80's of this glob with Techpan 2415. Is there a bit of tilt in the bottom of the image Gray?

[Bart]

Thanks Kevin, would be a bit bright maybe?! :sunny:

Hi Paul. Sigh....yes there is. Actually top right as it is rotated. Been trying to iron out other bits and pieces, its on the list. :rolleyes:

[Paul Haese]

I know that list mate. I have several like that.

[Placidus]

You've shown a tiny galaxy shining through the outskirts of NGC 104 at about 9 o'clock. Nifty.

[RickS]

Shame about the colour data but the lum is very good!

[Bart]

Hi M&T, yes, cool isn't it? I spotted it the other day and tried to solve it and couldn't and then forgot. I must run it through an online solver tonight.



Thanks Rick. When I complete the next project I moved onto I will redo the colour as should have sorted my flats by then as well.

[Sunfish]

Very clear and bright with those little clusters kron 11 or kron 21 showing through. My NGC 104 in the beginners section while coloured is not so bright and the Kron clusters are just faint smudges. Do you have many varied layers to achieve that brightness? Clarity and varied brightness seems to be an issue with these clusters that I am not sure how to solve.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c1GlLk9IMVmW0whfVGi8PYSV5z OtXT4B

[strongmanmike]

Looks good Bart, I agree with Paul, yours is much better of course... but here is a photo of an old print of Omega Cen (http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/66994094/original) I took in about March 1984 with a 5" Celestron SCT :)

Mike

[Bart]

C'mon Mike, don't tease! Where is it?

[strongmanmike]

Opps sorry, hyper link now added :D

[Bart]

Hello Ray. I used several differing exposure lengths to try to tame the core. I took a few 30 seconds and some 2 minutes to combine with the 5 minute ones at processing time. I could have shown every star in the core using that technique however; even through an eyepiece we do not see it like that, the centre is always quite bright so I adjusted it to what I think I remember what it looks like in a larger dob.

[Sunfish]

Thanks for that reply. Most helpful.

[Ross G]

Nice capture Bart.


Lots of detail.


Ross.

[Bart]

Glad it will be of some use. :thumbsup:



Thanks Ross! :)