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Originally Posted by lazjen
Nicely done.  |
Cheers Chris
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
That's a great shot Mike - the seeing must have been very good! Love the colour & detail too! Very "speccy" indeed  ! |
The seeing was ok about average for my site but it didn't vary too much during the Lum...I tell's ya, this area of NSW/ACT is a sure bet
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Apart from those two Milky Way stars blocking the view of the galaxy core (you should have moved them; moved yourself sufficiently far enough so now have them imped the view), a beautiful shot  |
I did try and drag them out'a the road but I am waaaay out of shape
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Wow ! A super-ultra-productive evening, and a very pretty, intriguing result.
A most unusual galaxy. We struggled to follow the spiral arms in and find the central bar: there seemed to be two possible candidates for the bar, and two candidates for the Seyfert nucleus. Where did I leave my x-ray spectrometer?
Ah, here it is, under the coffee machine, trying to keep warm.
Perhaps the arms are a bit on the flocculent side like M83.
The two bright field stars add to the image visually.
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Cheers Mike and Trish, I am very lucky (touch wood) my rig isn't automated but it is very reliable and repeatable
Getting a low noise relatively deep LHaRGB image of a modest galaxy in one night makes for a happy contented imager
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Originally Posted by Geoff45
Nice little galaxy there Mike. Beautiful crisp detail right down to the core. Good balance in the star colours.
Geoff
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Glad you enjoyed the view Geoff
, not many versions of this out there. I targeted this one due to an image I recalled taken
by Jim Riffle with his awesome Centurion 18 (18" F2.8 fork mounted scope) from Leyburn SEQ, some 15 years ago or so...that was my dream scope and I wouldn't mind one now! His images still hold their own even after all this time.
Mike