A nice barred spiral in HaLRGB.
Captured at SRO, 6 Feb - 29 Mar, 2016
Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (0.843 arcsec/pixel after Drizzle/resample)
Exposures: 38x600s L, 22x1200s R, 14x1200s G, 22x1200s B, 13x1800s Ha (~32 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
Acquisition credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Leonardo Orazi, Rob Pfile, Rick Stevenson and Jerry Yesavage.
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson
Full res/full field via Astrobin:
http://www.astrobin.com/245560/
Thanks for looking. The full field is worth exploring. There are some lovely little galaxies (some examples in the attached crop.)
Cheers,
Rick.