[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Still looking good at four hours Geoff. Its hard to image anything in Sydney at the moment

Thanks Rod

Originally Posted by RickS

A very pretty little galaxy, Geoff, and a great result for 4 hours!

Thanks Rod and Rick

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah given my fettish (one of a few) with imaging galaxies in recent years I recon I have trolled just about every galaxy list looking for good targets and I do rememeber this one, funny always hard to decide which galaxy to image and one can not image'em all huh? ...so it is good when others hit them like you have here and it's a great looking galaxy and nicely imaged as usual, looks kind of like a cross between the nearby NGC 2997 and NGC 6946 the fireworks galaxy

The new camera looks to be doing a good job too

Mike

Thanks Mike. As you say it's a nice looking galaxy--more aperture would be good though. The camera works very well (so far).

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Geoff. A noticeable improvement in quality of the image, from the camera right? Good processing as well. Lovely stars and galaxy colour.

A winner.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. I think the FLI is giving me better images for 2 main reasons--bigger pixels (9 microns vs 7.4) and, more importantly I can image at -30 all year round, whereas with the QSI I was often doing -10 on hot summer nights.