Ngc7424

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NGC7424 is a large barred spiral galaxy with well defined arms, similar to the Milky Way. It is around 38 million light years away.


Image:



49x 300s red
44x 300s green
48x 300s blue
70x 600s luminance

Total integration 11 hours 40 minutes.


Higher res here: https://observatory.site/astrophotography/Grand_Spiral_Galaxy_NGC7424/


Hardware:



Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik UHC, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II

Location:



Imaged on 6 nights between September 9 and September 18, 2018.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

Software:



Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, color calibration, reduce noise, LRGB combination, histogram stretch, HDR multiscale transform, curves.

[PeterSEllis]

Nice shot Adam. If you add a little Deconvolution from Pixinsight you can make the stars in the Galaxy pop out a little more, "but not too much deconvolution" or you will end up with things popping out that are not real.

Cheers
Peter

[codemonkey]

Looks good, Adam, congrats! Sounds like it's a dim one too, so extra credit for doing that from an orange zone.

[RickS]

Hi Adam,

Detail and depth is good. The colour is a little off, IMO. It's all a bit too blue, especially the dimmer parts of the galaxy where there's not normally that much colour.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Geoff45]

Nice capture Adam. Not an easy target.
Geoff