[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by RickS

That's a great result, Ray! Love the main galaxy and also the smaller fuzzies. The one at 3 o'clock is especially cool.

Cheers,
Rick.

thanks Rick. yep that one looks neat - pity it is so far away

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A very enjoyable view of NGC 300 that Ray It's one of those galaxies that sits a great field of background galaxies too which always makes for an awesome scene.

Well done

Mike

thanks for the kind words Mike.

Originally Posted by glend

Great image Ray. Are you continuing to acquire data for this target? Given the nodular details your getting, I can't help but wonder what a bit of Ha would add to the mix.

thank you Glen. No, cloudy here, so that is probably that for this year. I liked Mike's version with the Ha, so it can add to the galaxy. Thanks for the suggestion

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wonderful as usual Ray. A beautiful image of a very photogenic galaxy.

Its amazing you can make out knots of the brighter stars at such an unimaginable distance.

Greg.

thanks Greg, yeh, its great that we can resolve stars at such a distance (I suppose that is what they are)

Originally Posted by Placidus

Ray, that one caused an involuntary gasp of delight and amazement.

The stacked FWHM of under 2 sec arc goes some way to explaining the instantaneous reaction. Faultless gear and magnificent sky.

Trish and I will have fun coming back to your photo several times.

Best,
Mike

thanks M&T. the sky did it's bit this time - way better than average. Would have been a strange sight for a casual visitor - an old guy wandering around in the dark, looking at the sky and muttering "you bewdy".

Originally Posted by PRejto

Ray,

That is such a nice sharp image with great colour! Just how much improvement in resolution do you think you are getting through this "lucky imaging?" I think with your previous Trius you were doing 300 sec, so now 5x shorter for luminance and guiding also less of a factor. I'm curious how you stacked so many luminance frames? One go, or several smaller stacks?

This makes me want to sell my Trius!

Peter

Hi Peter. I think that the "mildly fortuitous" imaging drops the FWHM by a bit in average seeing. In really good seeing it still worthwhile, but less effective. By far the biggest advantage is with narrowband, where my system is typically sky noise limited at about 10 minutes - vs a couple of hours with the 694.

Originally Posted by topheart

Hi Ray,

A top notch NGC300!
Very well done!
I hope the data I've been collecting on this comes out half as well as this.
Cheers,
Tim

thanks Tim - looking forward to your image

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Ray,
Your image is just extraordinary.
It's so sharp & the colours are perfect.
You have resolved so many individual stars inside the galaxy.
Going under 2 arc seconds & plenty of integration time
with dark skies & obviously a perfectly collimated & guided scope
has given professional looking results that would compare with
a much larger scope.

cheers
Allan

very generous comments Allan - thank you very much.

regards Ray