NGC 5189 - the spiral planetary

[Stevec35]

Looking for something to image on a pretty good night I thought I would give NGC 5189 a go. It's a fairly popular object and I've imaged it many times before but this is the first time with the current gear. Being fairly bright it only required about 8 hours of imaging time.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc5189_STXL16200_RC14.htm

[Placidus]

A very fine image. Deep, lots of nebular detail, and beautiful RGB star colours.

[Stevec35]

Thanks M&T. Yes, I was pretty happy with this one. t's certainly the best image of it that I've taken.

[Geoff45]

Nice image Steve. Not an easy object.
Geoff

[Atmos]

Really nice Steve! It looks near identical to what I was seeing visually through a 32” over the weekend... in greyscale though.

[Peter Ward]

Nice one Steve. It's not an easy target to do justice to, but you've done that in spades here. :thumbsup:

[Stevec35]

Thanks Peter. It's one I keep coming back to and every new image I do of it seems to be a little better than the last one.



Thanks Colin. Matt Saarikko emailed me saying he was observing it with a 32". He must have been with you.




Thanks Geoff. I've had plenty of practice with it. You have to carefully balance the bright and faint areas when you are processing it.

[strongmanmike]

Nice rich colours Steve.

Mike

[Stevec35]

Thanks Mike. Hopefully I didn't overdo the saturation.