Ngc55 & ngc253

[gbeal]

Having a bit of fun with the newly acquired W/O FLT132, and equally new SXVF-H9, plus filters.
Lots to learn, but enjoying the challenge of mono.
The 253 shot is a straight RGB, with 4x300 seconds, and the 55 shot is LRGB, with the L at 1x1, 6 shots at 600 seconds, and the RGB binned 2x2, 3 shots each at 300 seconds.
Gary

[multiweb]

This is superb Gary! :eyepop: Well done. Having fun with you new toys? :)

[[1ponders]]

Wow, I've not really seen detail like that before in 55 and I can even make out the spiral arm structure of 253 which isn't all that obvious in many shots. You must be well chuffed Gary. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

Lot's of little background galaxies!!
Super detail!
Mono is so much easier to work with I reckon. No extra fiddling around trying to get the colour right.

[gbeal]

Cheers guys (yep, you are guy for the purposes of this exercise Jeanette), it is nice to be back on the mono. Definitely more fiddly, but the best part is that most of it is automated within the likes of Maxim, filter changes etc, so it is a matter of supervising mainly.
Not sure about "getting the colour right" though Jeanette, I did about 3 hours of narrowband on M16 last night and the colour is very very screwy, such that I didn't really like what I got.
Gary

[telecasterguru]

These are wonderful images full of detail. The WO is looking good.

Frank

[renormalised]

Great shots, Gary...the globs in 55 are fairly easy to spot:D

[AlexN]

Fantastic work mate!

That WO FLT132 may yet be a keeper! Optical quality is sometimes hard to judge from an image, but detail like that can't lie.. You've got a VERY nice scope there!

Alex.

[Octane]

Gary,

Both wonderful shots, but, your NGC 253 is a corker. Grand image scale and all.

Well done.

Regards,
Humayun