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Jewel Box & NGC 6300 at 1728mm focal length
Last night I used the Mewlon 180 F12 with Tak x0.8 Reducer/Flattener and SBIG ST2000XM to record the Jewel Box and NGC6300 at a longish focal length of 1728mm.
The Mewlon is a slowish ‘scope, even at F9.6 and the ST2K doesn’t have the highest QE, so the combination really struggled on NGC 6300 (ESO 101 25, PGC 60001) a Magnitude 11, Barred Spiral Hubble Type: SBb Galaxy located in Ara, with an apparent size of 5.5'x 3.5'.
I only managed 12x5mins Lum and 3x5 mins each RGB on NGC6300which is woefully inadequate for this galaxy from the light polluted suburbs of Brisbane. The Jewel Box was L 20x3 mins and RGB 5x3 mins each.
Both images are 1024x768 crops from the 1600x1200 originals.
Cheers
Dennis
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