Sombrero Galaxy

[furgle]

One of my favorite astrophotography objects


Higher resolution here (https://observatory.site/astrophotography/Sombrero_Galaxy/)



**Image:**

* 41x 300s Luminance
* 41x 300s Red
* 38x 300s Green
* 42x 300s Blue

Total integration 13.5 hours.

**Hardware:**

* Celestron 11" EdgeHD
* Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
* QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C


**Location:**

* Exposed during 4 nights between 1st April and 7th April 2019.
* Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

[Geoff45]

Good one Adam. You've handled the bright core very nicely. Plenty of detail in the disk as well. Top shot!
Geoff

[Atmos]

Very nice Adam! The bright core is very well handled with lovely colour :thumbsup:

[Placidus]

Gorgeous image, Adam. A real sense of a relatively opaque and dusty spiral inside a more or less transparent lenticular galaxy.

[Andy01]

Nice work! Inspirational to see what can be captured from Bortle 7 skies too :thumbsup:

[Stevec35]

Yes that's a nice Sombrero. Good detail in the disk and the centre is well handled.

Steve

[multiweb]

Pretty cool shot. :thumbsup: You've got some serious gear there.

[alpal]

Great shot Adam,
you can clearly see much detail as per the dust lanes.


cheers
Allan

[Peter Ward]

A fine Mexican hat.

Well done! :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Fabulous. Just a tad oversharpened though.

Greg.

[A1]

Absolutely amazing for Bortle 7.

Cheers, Jason

[topheart]

Excellent!
Cheers,
Tim

[codemonkey]

Nice one, Adam!

[ChrisV]

That's awesome. Love the detail

[Paul Haese]

Nice resolution and colour. Looks great to me.

[Bart]

Great stuff. A very nice 104!

[Retrograde]

Very nice Adam. :thumbsup: