NGC 247 - LRGBHa

[Ryderscope]

I see that NGC 247 is getting some attention at the moment with the recent post of David's excellent close up of this galaxy. Mine is a wider field at 1.5 degrees taken with my Tak TSA120 and QSI683 CCD camera. I went a bit crazy with the integration time partly because I could with excellent clear weather and it does make noise management so much easier when processing.

The wide field makes for a good cruise around to hunt out the myriad of background galaxies. Have a look at revision E in the Astrobin post for an annotated version.

Link to Astrobin post here. (https://astrob.in/mfkput/0/)
Acquisition details in Astrobin post.


Clear skies,
Rodney

[gregbradley]

A great result Rodney.

Greg.

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Greg.

[Dave882]

Stunning Rodney! That’s a real quality image. Colour is spot on, and the detail you’ve extracted is great. I love the addition of the Ha- in targets like this it adds so much. Amazing effort accumulating all that data too!! It’s really paid off

[Ryderscope]

Thanks for the kind words David.

[Startrek]

Rodney,
Excellent image , especially the framing , it’s nice how you’ve placed the main galaxy off to the side to expose many hidden faint stuff in the main interstellar background.
Nice work and well done for effort alone , plenty of nights and good data does wonders to a Galaxy image.
Cheers
Martin

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Martin. With a 1.5 degree field of view I do need to get creative with the framing of galaxy images. To that end, I don't usually bother with galaxies unless they are at least 10 arc minutes or greater. This one works nicely at 21' across the long axis.

[strongmanmike]

Yeah, what Dave and Martone said :thumbsup:

Great to have such a wide view of the area, you have a few cropping options, if you want to create a compositionally more appealing image, for what ever reason :thumbsup:

Mike

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Mike, ‘tis true that we can exercise our creativity and explore more options :)

[Paul Haese]

I think that field of view works quite well and gives a good view of the back ground galaxies. The image is well processed.

[Ryderscope]

Thanks for the feedback Paul.

CS,
Rodney