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NGC55 (revisited) + NGC300
Hey all,
About a month back I posted an image of NGC55, taken from my suburban backyard.
The weather finally relented and I was able to add a further 3 hours of data (making 5 hours in total - the most I have ever captured of one target) to produce the image below.
Secondly, I nabbed it's neighbour - NGC300. This one is 3 hours worth of data, collected in one night. I would have got more, but I had to get up early the next morning and didn't want to leave my gear outside (the same as the evening of capturing NGC55).
I still have a very long way to go when it comes to processing images, and I suspect that different camera settings would have meant less light pollution, so I am not totally happy with these images. If you squint at them and don't look too closely, they look OK.
Cheers,
V
SW EvoStar 72ED @ 420mm
Nikon D7100 DSLR
HEQ5-Pro + SV305 + SV165
NGC55:
240 subs @ 60 seconds, ISO400
20 subs @ 180 seconds, ISO400 (pretty much at the meridian, so less LP)
NGC300:
180 subs @ 60 seconds, ISO400
Both stacked with bias, darks and flats in Siril then heavily cropped and worked on with Affinity Photo.
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