The Needle's Eye Galaxy

[DiscoDuck]

NGC 247 - about 7 hours luminance and 3 x 1 hour RGB with ZWO 1600MM-C and RC8 on a Mach1.

This was at a dark sky site last weekend. The seeing was terrible, and I should've got more colour! But did my best with what I had. I love the collection of background galaxies in this field anyway.

Full res on Astrobin here (http://www.astrobin.com/geoqn8/). Comments welcome.

[Geoff45]

Good rendition there Paul, in spite of the seeing. I think the colour os good.
Geoff

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Geoff.

[Ryderscope]

That's a nice target Paul and presents well. Lots of detail in the galaxy to explore.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Rodney.

[Atmos]

Really nice Paul, the details within the galaxy is very good :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

+1 Great details in the lanes. :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Another nice shot Paulie, Burbidge's chain looks so cool :thumbsup:

Mike

[Bart]

That is not too bad Disco, not bad at all. The small galaxy chain looks awesome!

[cometcatcher]

What an excellent image! It's on my redo list.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Colin, Marc, Mike, Bart and Kevin.

I've reprocessed the image a bit on Astrobin to try to reduce some of the color halos/bloat on the stars. Hope it is a bit better.

[Atmos]

There is less bloat now so that’s an improvement :thumbsup:

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks :)

[Placidus]

That's excellent, Paul.

Lots of gorgeous background galaxies, including the special chain toward top right.

Perhaps a touch of colour noise. That can sometimes be controlled by deconvolving and wavelet sharpening the L, but wavelet smoothing the RGB, and then combining.

Top notch image. Lovely.

MnT

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Mike n Trish. I'll give that a go.

[Paul Haese]

Given the data this is pretty good Paul. Loads of detail in the galaxy. Might well be my next target with the RC12. Must get up to Bendleby again sometime.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Paul. It's be great to see you up there!