Ngc2997

[cometcatcher]

Long time between images this time of year.

NGC 2997 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia.

Taken over two nights, Luminance the first and RGB the second. GSO 10" F4 Newtonian, ZWO ASI 183mm Pro cooled to -10C, 719 x 30 seconds unguided. I'll have to fix the light spray at 2 Oclock one year. :P

Full frame at Astrobin ---> https://astrob.in/395529/0/

[multiweb]

Nice details in the galaxy core and spiral arms. :thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Marc. It's an improvement over my last attempt a couple of years ago with the DSLR.

[strongmanmike]

Nice one Kevin :thumbsup: always found the arm structure intriguing on this one, somewhat complex almost broken up arms on the lower side there and one big main one on top...interesting

Mike

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Mike. Yes it's not that symmetrical. I wonder if something is influencing it? Doesn't seem to be too many other galaxies nearby.

[Geoff45]

One of my favourite galaxies, Kevin. You’ve done a nice job with the colour, detail and composition.

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Geoff. I'm still practicing combining Luminance to RGB but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.

[gregbradley]

Another very good image Kevin. The stars though seem a little large overall compared to the Galaxy. I wonder if some star reduction could help here.

Greg.

[Placidus]

Premier cru.

Excellent acquisition and processing. The central dust lanes are especially fine.

One of our favourites too.

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Greg. Already used level 3 star shrink, which is fairly gentle. They may be a bit fatter from being unguided with some drift.



Thanks M&T.