NGC 55 my second galaxy

[stanlite]

took this tonight 2hours, good seeing, Still no Coma correction (its sitting in a box till shorten my tube). quick process. Hope you like it. This is my 3rd week imaging (took me a while to save up on a uni student salary haha) hope you all like it. Still have to buy the Noise ninja plug in so no noise reduction in this image sadly.

http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad281/stanlite88/NGC55.jpg

[renormalised]

Nice shot:)

Might need to tighten your guiding...stars look a little eggy. Still more that could be brought out in this.

[marco]

Indeed a good start Grady, after just 3 weeks you cannot complain at all :thumbsup:
I agree about the tracking to be perfected and also longer integration to keep the noise down, noise ninja can be a good tool in same cases but the real recipe to keep the noise under control is exposure+exposure+exposure ;)

Clear Skies
Marco

[stanlite]

don't worry marco more exposures coming. i am still working on prefecting the tracking ... setup last night was rather haphazard (total setup in 15mins) and no polar align (used the holes i made from monday) so i can't complain to much. Thinking misguide was more the turbulence at ground level (about 15knots last night i think) and poor balance on my part ... but tonight i should have plenty of time to setup :D