Ngc 300

[DiscoDuck]

About 9 hours on NGC 300 (6 hours luminance) taken at a dark sky site in the southern Flinders ranges in SA last weekend. Cloud + wind meant that this was the only data/object I managed to gather :(

Taken with a ZWO ASI1600MM-C on a GSO RC8 + Astro-Physics Mach1.

Higher res version available on Astrobin here (https://www.astrobin.com/full/370978/D/).

Comments/suggestions welcome as always.

Paul

[willik]

Looks good Paul I like it nice image.
Martin

[p1taylor]

Very nice Paul.

peter

[Placidus]

Paul, that is splendid! Very well acquired and processed. Beautiful to see.

[Atmos]

As a faint galaxy, the 6 hours of luminance really helps it pop from the background :)

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Nailed it! Top notch Paul. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Love that little galaxy cluster at 10 o'clock and all the background faint fuzzies. You must have got some decent seing.

[topheart]

Very well done!!
Cheers,
Tim

[Imme]

Great image....really enjoy seeing faint galaxies in the background, really puts things in perspective (how small we are!)

[Andy01]

Very nicely done, great detail there :)

[Rigel003]

Absolutely beautiful image. Well done.

[strongmanmike]

Overall looks pretty good Paul, nice job on this perennial favourite of ours :thumbsup:

A dark site in the southern Flinders Ranges huh?...niiiice :)

Mike

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks guys!



I noticed that the FWHM for the luminance got down to a tad over 2" for some subs, and averaged (in the data I kept) about 2.4". A couple of the red channel subs made it under 2". So, yeah. I think seeing was ok - wind was the main issue keeping the FWHMs a bit high.



Not too far from civilisation … or at least Adelaide! :)

[cometcatcher]

That's a very fine image of a faint surface brightness galaxy. Love it.

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you Kevin.

[Capella_Ben]

Really nice. I'm hoping to give this a go with my RC8 as well. Just need some clear dark skies!

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Ben. Good luck with the skies!! :)

[RickS]

That's a really nice NGC 300, Paul!

[Jeff]

Lovely work Paul.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Rick and Jeff.

[DaveNZ]

Impressive image Paul.

Nice detail and colour. The faint fuzzies really set it off.

Nice mount you have there.

Dave

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Dave.

Ironically the mount gave me a few issues. It's quite new and I'm still getting used to it. I think I had it set up too close to perfect balance in RA, as it was very sensitive to the slightest wind gust. I'll try to unbalance more in future - with my old EQ6 I always unbalanced a lot as its backlash was significant, but I guess I didn't think a "premium mount" would be an issue. They still have backlash of course :)

[Bart]

Very nice Mr Duck! You are getting that ASI1600 and GSO combo down pat!
I might have to get one just to keep up!

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you, Master Simpson! :)

I'm enjoying using the 1600 - a nice upgrade from my trusty old QHY8.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Paul on a very tricky object. Colour looks good but detail could be drawn out in the core I think.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Paul. I'll have a look and see what I can do with the core.
Paul

[DiscoDuck]

Updated the core after Paul H's suggestion. On Astrobin (https://www.astrobin.com/full/370978/E/). Any better?

[gregbradley]

That is a sensational image. Those stars are pinpoints and lovely colour.

Greg.

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you, Greg.

[Atmos]

That is looking really really nice Paul!

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Colin.