[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Totally gob smacked!!

Awesome Ray!

This is such a tough galaxy to image, just remarkable detail.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin. it was hard to try to balance the signal and noise in the dim bits - I was pleased with the core detail though.

Originally Posted by pvelez

Ray

That is super - a wonderful image

Pete

Thanks a lot Pete

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Ray! The level of detail is great, especially the dust lanes in the core.

Thanks Rick. lot going on in the core and it doesn't look like other galaxies at all.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Far out Ray...geez you're not wrong, some great seeing you had there

Great job and nowhere near too saturated could handle a tad more even

Mike

OK, will try some more saturation - seeing is everything eh?

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Stunning Ray just stunning.

Greg.

Thanks very much Greg

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Crazy detail of fine dust lanes in the merging galaxies.

John.

Hi John - thanks. sure is a different looking galaxy

Originally Posted by Rod771

Far out!! And we're looking at a < 200kb jpeg

Well done

Thanks Rod. the JPEG seems to have "enhanced" the noise structure a bit, but otherwise its OK

Originally Posted by allan gould

That's a real keeper Ray, beautifully done.
Allan

Thanks Allan

Originally Posted by rogerg

Excellent!

Thank you Roger.

Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

Great image

Makes me jealous. I want a good image of the antenna so I commissioned my photographer (my son Trevor) to do it on the weekend at Wiruna. Saddly it was raining and we did not go. Oh well try again next month.

Barry

thanks Barry. I have been wanting to get a view of these things myself and was really pleased to get some good seeing, even though the sky was pretty bright - better than rain though.

Originally Posted by gvanhau

Very nice!!

Can you give tetails of capture? timing, etc?


Geert

Thanks Geert.
sorry, forgot to do so.
250f4 Skywatcher Newtonian with RCC1 and H694 camera on an EQ6
5hrs L @1x1@200sec, 3/4 hrs each R,G,B @2x2@120sec

Originally Posted by nandopg

Hi Ray,
Absolutely fantastic !! I've never seen so much details in an image of the Antennae as I am seeing in your image. I assume you imaged with your GSO Newt 12", am I right ?

One more comment: that is a definitive image !

Thanks for sharing,

Fernando

Very generous Fernando - thanks. This was taken with a Skywatcher 250f4 Newtonian that I am in the process of settling in - still have some things to do to it, but it is working pretty well.

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

A thrilling picture -one to aspire to. Thanks for sharing
Graham

Hi Graham - thanks for the encouragement

Originally Posted by SkyViking

That is really excellent, some great resolution in the core area. Congratulations on capturing such a great Antennae image.
IMO saturation could certainly be boosted though, but that's of course a matter of individual taste.

I'm working on this one at the moment and it's really an amazing galaxy pair and an interesting background field too. For example, there is a cool looking distant galaxy cluster at the end of the short tidal stream. Only got 14 hours so far though, so it's nowhere near finished for me

Thanks Rolf. looking forward to your image - definitely a good megadata candidate. The sky was at least a mag brighter than normal and I haven't yet got enough data to bring out much background stuff, but it was nice to get some good seeing for the core.


Thanks for the comments guys. Have a bit more data from last night ( not high res though) and will try to add it to get the noise down. Regards Ray