Ngc 1300

[Geoff45]

Nice barred spiral in Eridanus.
Scope: 110mm APO (William Optics)
Camera: QSI540wsg
Mount: GM8
4 x 5 min RGB, 6 x 5 min L
Fields: 30' x 30' and 60' x 60'

There is some flare from an out of field star, but Marc thinks that flocking the dew shield will cut out that sort of thing. See the thread here (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=55559). The cropped image gets rid of most of this, but unfortunately cuts out the galaxy NGC 1297 just to the north.

[rogerg]

One of my favorite galaxies. Nice detail in it, smooth texture. Background is perhaps a bit light or noisy.

The flare looks like a tractor-beam from the Enterprise come to capture NGC 1300 and tow it away :lol: (have to be a trekkie to understand)

[Geoff45]

Thanks Roger. Actually a bit of messing around in PS will probably get rid of the flare. The thumbnail is a quick attempt.

[multiweb]

I'm sure Jase posted something a while ago about isolating the background from DSO/starfield to minimise gradients and halos. Pretty sure I've got it on file somewhere. Will dig it out. Very cool pic btw :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

The star flare makes it quite surreal.

[iceman]

That's weird - it looks like a projector image and NGC1300 is being projected onto the sky.

Nice image Geoff!

[Garyh]

Lovely little galaxy.
Bummer about the flare that pointing right at it!
Reminds me of that russian event not long ago with that swirly light in the sky!
cheers

[AlexN]

Fantastic image! for such a small amount of data the detail and colour looks really really nice..

Well done.

[telecasterguru]

I like the image as well. I think you have done a very good job putting it all together.


Frank.

[strongmanmike]

My previous Astronomik filters showed this efect more often than I'd have liked but the new low reflection varients appear tro have eliminated it.

It's a great galaxy and looks very cool in your rendition, with her arms winding almost around twice.

Mike