Ngc6902

[markas]

This unbarred spiral lies 132Mly away in Sagittarius (lots of stars:(). It is seldom imaged - I now know why - the inner disc is quite bright, but the spiral arms are very faint, and that bright inner disc is only ~1 arcmin and the arms are within about 5.5 arcmin.
This is 10 hours of data - 4L and 2 each R,G,B - and it really needs lots more to dig out the faintest arms. So I guess this is work in progress.
Shot over two nights, seeing OK (1.9") to not so good (2.7").


Mark

[TrevorW]

Nice capture good colour, always harder to process galaxies IMO :)

[strongmanmike]

A fabulous galaxy image Mark, love the long "unwinding" thin, almost spindly, Daddy long legs, spiral arms on this one, excellent :thumbsup:

The 1.9" seeing is great, would have helped, nice one.

Mike

[markas]

Trevor and Mike,
Thanks for the comments. A lot more data would make processing easier, but I'm not holding my breath, given the continuing cloudiness:(. Getting two reasonable nights in a row was a real gift.
Mark

[gregbradley]

That’s a very pretty galaxy. That turned out very well.
Greg

[Dave882]

Lovely image well done! I love the central core structure you’ve revealed

[markas]

Greg and Dave,
Thanks for the comments.
The size and distance of this make it a tricky subject. With the cloudiness, which has gone on for so long, it's hard to find enough good quality dark sky time to do it justice. But it is a very shapely little object!
Mark

[petershah]

Thats stunning Mark....beautiful process

[markas]

Thanks Peter,
It was a bit tough!

Mark