[andyc (Andy)]

Originally Posted by RickS

NGC6744 is a difficult target, Andy. That's a pretty amazing result for less than 2 hours!

Cheers,
Rick.

Originally Posted by Atmos

I agree with Rick, for less than two hours it has come up quite nicely. I've only briefly attempted it myself, didn't realise just how dim it was!

Thanks Rick and Colin, it's one of those big dim ones, and I'm pretty happy to get this through the bit of LP we have here. I was pleasantly surprised to get the satellite galaxy, though without a lot more data to get the noise down, it's not an image that survives being enlarged too much!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Not bad Andy, you have that fainter sweeping outer arm and like you say just needs more exposure, it has a low surfcae brightness this baby...are you imaging from Sydney? If so, probably benefit from grabbing more data from a dark site (if you are actually able to of course)

Mike

Thanks Mike, yeah, I might try and grab a bit more before it sets this year. I have a chance to get south out of the Sydney lights at the long weekend (a place called Nerriga), I might think about a bit of imaging from there if I can, fingers crossed for clear skies! But I might be after new targets, will see...

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Nice result Andy

I tried imaging this galaxy once and failed miserably...

Thanks Suavi