NGC6744 Galaxy - a poor image but ...

[Doogs38]

This is a poor image of NGC6744. However what impressed me was, with a little editing and tweaking in Siril and Photoshop, I could extract a basic image from about 50 mins of crappy subs taken under a bright moon that I had initially considered a wasted effort. I can even pick out NGC6744's small companion galaxy - its a small vertical 'smudge' to the bottom right of the galaxy. Another lesson learnt - don't delete anything! Alex

[AdamJL]

yeah that's great. Not a bright target at all, so you did well.

[xelasnave]

You have done very well. I personally enjoy taking poor data and making the best out of it as there are many nights where the bin seems the only option...but these times you learn more a bout your processing software and that can't be a bad thing.
Alex

[Dave882]

Nice job! Very hard to hit galaxies (especially faint one like this) with any moon around.

[Doogs38]

Thanks AdamJL, Dave and Alex. I really enjoyed the process of digging an imagine out of poor data … I agree with you Alex, it’s a great way to (re)learn the usefulness of histograms and get stuck into some image editing software. Alex