That's my middle name now - work-in-progress!!!
Since my imaging drought has lasted so long, I'll take any excuse to post
. So, here is a "work-in-progress" of NGC 6822. As you can see B&W only - about 4.5 hours of Lum & Ha in equal portions. Needless to say the only decent imaging night during the current no-moon period was Sunday night.
Seeing was good though.
Nothing awfully exciting yet but I'm pretty happy with it and it will look much better with a bit more Lum and some RGB. This is quite a photogenic galaxy, especially if you add a bit of Ha to make the emission nebs pop and process the blue star clusters properly. I believe the data is just starting to show galactic cirrus too but it's too faint to push too hard without getting a lot of noise - it's there though!
Full res full frame (trimmed for dithering artefacts). Use the
"Cntrl -" trick if you don't like looking at full res
:
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/157224548/original
Wish me luck with the next new moon!!
