NGC 6744 Pavo Galaxy from South Coast
Currently imaging NGC 300 which is my last galaxy for a while as heading back to light polluted Sydney tomorrow. On Tuesday night captured NGC 6744 a large face on spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Pavo with a brightness of magnitude 9.14. It was discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop a Scottish astronomer at his small observatory at Parramatta Sydney
Conditions for imaging were excellent ( no wind, no moon, no dew, low Jetstream, good seeing )
8”f5 Bintel GSO newt on an EQ6-R Mount
Canon 600D unmodded with Baader coma corrector
Home made 60mm cooling fan
ISO 800
28 x 5 minute dithered guided subs
20 x darks
Captured with BYEOS
Goto and tracking EQMOD, Stellarium Scope and Stellarium
PHD2 guiding using Hysteresis at 0.80to 0.90 arc sec error
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools
Thanks for looking, comments always welcome
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