NGC4945 Last Night

[Hagar]

NGC 4945 taken with Tak FS102, Canon 40D. Stacked in DSS on average.
9 X 10 min Lights at ISO 800 and 8 X 10 min Darks.

[iceman]

Nice result, Doug! The galaxy itself looks very nice.

The background may be a bit too dark though, and there's some horrible jpeg compression which detracts from a lovely galaxy widefield.

10 minute exposures! Nice! What ISO? How long did you take in drift aligning?

[Hagar]

Thanks Mike. The joy of JPEG compression. ISO 800. Drift alignment took about 30 minutes. The EQ6 is mounted on a pier in my ROR Observatory.
10 minute subs and darks still makes for a long night.

[Tamtarn]

Nice detail in the galaxy Doug. I presume the two large stars were a result of cropping.

[Ric]

A nice image Doug, well done.

This galaxy looks quite popular tonight.

Cheers

[EzyStyles]

great shot doug. alot of details around the central region of the galaxy.

[skeltz]

good going doug,did you crop the pic?
I know with my fs102 and my stl11000k with the dedicated taka field flattner /reducer i still had to crop 50% of an image.
But hey the fs102 is a brilliant scope for what it was originally designed for!