Oh Dear not another 253

[peeb61]

Folks,
Appears there's always room for more NGC253's!

Here's my effort...

6 x 5 minutes at 1600ISO using Canon 350D with an Orion broadband filter at prime focus with a Saxon ED80 autoguided with a DSI and piggybacked on my LX200GPS.

Stacked with DSS and processed in CS3.

Paul

[Peter Ward]

Sorry I'm mystified.

Another galaxy lost in a very wide field.

Why did you choose the ED80 over your LX200???

Galaxies (apart from the Milky Way) need focal length........

[peeb61]

Thanks Peter,
I've used the LX200 many times for imaging but due to the f/10 focal length, I was getting a lot of star bloat, I started using an f/6.3 focal reducer but got bad vignetting.

So I settled for the wide field ED80, I can stack and crop for the same nice close image, the LX200 puts the image in the field of view each time so I'm doublee happy.

I just love the wide field shots.

Paul

Here is the same cropped to suit.

[mick pinner]

l personally love to see some objects hanging out in space, a feel of vastness and space.

[Matty P]

A nice result Paul.

I agree with Peter though, you shouldn't have used your LX200. All you had to do is take flats to get rid of the vignetting.

A good image none the less.

Well done. :thumbsup:

[peeb61]

Thanks Matty,
I will try out taking images with the LX200 at some time I suppose and as you say take the flats to fix the vignetting.
We will how it goes.

Cheers
Paul

[multiweb]

Nice pic. I like widefields too :)

[dcalleja]

Good job on this. The cropped version has some good detail in it

[peeb61]

Me too Marc, I'm a big fan as well, it all comes down to taste, I will however swap things around and image through the LX200 as see how that turns out.



I reckon Dan, there is detail, if you take a fair few images and stack you tend to get that clarity.

Thanks all for your opinions.

Paul