16.5 hours on NGC 1365 with a 10" CDK

[John K]

Hi everyone,

Has been quite some time since I have posted on IIS - hope everyone is doing well!

Galaxy NGC 1365 taken from the ASV's Leon Mow Dark Sky Site with a 10" CDK telescope, AP900 mount and ZWO 1600mm camera.

Total of 16.5 hrs exposure with 11.9 hours Luminance and 4.6 hours RGB. Processes in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Clear skies.

John K.

[TrevorW]

Worth the wait :)

[Dave882]

Looking very nice John - great to see you back imaging again! Love to see a full-size image too :)

[strongmanmike]

Welcome back to the dark arts John :hi:

A great target to rekindle enthusiasm.

Some great kit too :thumbsup: look forward to more.

Mike

[PRejto]

Very nice! It would be great to see a full sized image rather than the small jpeg. Can you post a link? I'm trying to image this with my tec180 @ f14. Was you image at the native resolution of the CDK?

[John K]

Thank you Trevor.



Thanks Dave - my Flickr subscription has long expired and I'm not on Astrobin (yet) so let me see what I can do!



Thanks Mike - have been enjoying looking at your incredible images from your mountain top observatory



All at native resolution and not binned and that is at the full frame of the 1600mm sensor.
Flickr subscription has long expired and I'm not on Astrobin (yet) so let me see what I can do!
I am sure it would come up amazing in your TEC180 although a lot of work at F/14 perhaps :)


I am attaching a cropped and slightly sharpened version of the image.

[PRejto]

Thanks John, So your focal length was ~ 1,730mm? my TEC-180 & f14 = ~ 2,520mm. It's kind of tough, especially guiding, but I've in pretty good below 2 arc-sec sky and my new camera is quite sensitive. If the weater decides to cooperate it will be intersting to see how this goes. Your photo is lovely,

[Bodon]

Really nice mate:thumbsup: