Out of Hibination.... NGC1365

[Robby]

Hi Guys,
I have been very quiet lately, with bad weather and too much work...
Finally the clouds cleared last night (It's been over 6 weeks of cloud) and I managed to re-aquiant myself with the scope. Dust off a few cobwebs and I was away.
NGC1365 in Fornax. C9.25 @f/6.3. Canon 300D at ISO800. 23x4min exposures.
Mars. C9.25 @ f/25. 750 frames stacked in Registax. Very poor seeing, and just managed to get one AVI before the cloud rolled in.
Cheers

[astro_south]

Good shooting Robby. Nice to see a shot of 1365 - one of my favourite galaxies to observe

[h0ughy]

Oh that galaxy is wonderful, Love it! mars is great too.

I saw NGC1365 visually through a 30" scope at Qld Astrofest and this was the exact view I saw. great stuff

[cventer]

Nice job on 1365. The bar in the middle has good definition.
Best Regards
Chris

[[1ponders]]

Good to see you out and about again Robby. I was starting to wonder if you would ever see the sky again.

What did you use to process 1365? Photoshop?

[Robby]

Yep, Photoshop as usual... Stacking & aligning took an age. 5 blocks of about 5 each. I should really get IP or similar one day....
Scant for cash at the moment...
Cheers

[[1ponders]]

Maybe try IRIS. Its a good price....free ;) Just make sure you download Jim Solomon's cookbook

[atalas]

Nice work Robby !

[Starkler]

Mine too :)
I hope to see a few more images of 1365 now its visible again :)

[Striker]

Great shots Robby.

Good to see you getting back into some imaging.

Thanks for sending the clouds over to Brisbane.......grrrrrrrrr
Come on it was close match...we only won by 2 points...lol

[ving]

the fornax galaxy rox :)
nice shots :)

[beren]

:) top stuff, looks like, i think, you caught the duststorm that is brewing on mars too

[tornado33]

Great shots there, love the galaxy I must try for that myself :)
Scott

[fringe_dweller]

Great to see you back in action Robby - that 1365 is magic! :) the Mars shot cooks too

[asimov]

Nice images there mate!

[Itchy]

Hi Robby

Nice images.
How much of a crop is the 1365?. I'm keen to have a go at this one with my SN10.

Cheers

[seeker372011]

Great shot of a great target..also is that a background galaxy in the top left..very smooth and noise free..all round top effort

[Robby]

Quite a lot... Here is a RAW frame.

[Robby]

Yep, it is. The processing killed it's brightness a little. But there are a number of extended galaxies in the full frame. Stretch the RAW image I just posted & you'll see what I mean. There is a good cluster of 3 or 4 lower right.
Cheers & thanks for all the nice comments!! Hopefully the weather will hold. I've got a number of targets to get through.

[rumples riot]

Thats a Nice Fornax shot, and given the crop your guiding is pretty darn good. Really top stuff. Your Mars is also pretty good, you must have caught a small break in the clouds.

[Robby]

Guiding.. :) Must be the star-mate mate :confuse3: ....
Thanks for the comment re, Mars. It's mt first this year and I was reasonably happy with it. Seeing was pretty crap, but at that altitude it's probably the best we are gonna see it down here.
Cheers

[rumples riot]

Yeah I suspect this apparition of Mars will not be quite so good for us southerners. Even when at 40-45 degrees the atmosphere is too disturbed. On top of this it will be along wait until the next good one for us. I will be in late 50's when it next comes up trumps. So I guess we need to make the best of a bad situation. If it was not wintery weather we might have a better shot at it.