NGC4945 fun with different scopes.

[Astroman]

Hi .

Yeah me again, yeah its another NGC 4945, yeah I like this galaxy for some reason, yeah I want to get more from it, yeah I want to kick NASA's image for a 6. .

Okay Went out with all guns on the EQ6 last night hoping to use the 8" to image this galaxy, well after aligning the mount etc... no drift aligning I took 4 images of NGC 4945. 1 @ 30 seconds and 3 @ 2 minutes before I realized my auto guiding wasn't working, not sure why yet, giving me the ****s. Anyway all shots were @ ISO 800 unguided LOL.. Just threw the frames together for a bit of fun and to see what resolution I get with the 8". Overall I am really happy with it.

No darks, no flats, no bias frames nothing, so this is basically RAW data.

http://www.sastormchasers.com/astronomy/ngc4945close.jpg

[ballaratdragons]

Wooooo, nice image scale, Andrew :thumbsup:

Yep, knock NASA's socks off :lol:

Same here, there is something about 4945 that gets to me too. :)

[Dr Nick]

I love this target!
Great image! ;)

[spearo]

yep i agree, there's something about this target i like too. I havent imaged it since last year and i plan to again now that I have sorted out my tracking a bit.
it's a challenging one for sure
frank

[Ric]

Very nice Andrew