Got some clear skies over the New Moon and along with finishing off a bigger project, decided to hit the very cool trio of small galaxies in Pavo known as the Devils Mask (because viewed in a certain orientation, together they look a bit like an evil face).
The conditions were favourable for a good whack of the capture time with FWHM measured in raw subs, using MaximDL, ranging between a good 1.7" to a pretty soft 2.3". To get the best detail out of the small 2 arc min sized galaxies, I used about three hours worth of the best subs (FWHM < 1.9") for the main galaxy trio region and the whole 4.1hrs Lum with FWHM < 2.2"(and scrapped the rest) for the full field.
At 190 Million light years these babies are pretty small, each only 2 arc min in size, so I am pushing the limits of an 1120mm FL F3.8 Newt trying to capture fine detail in such a small object but the conditions never the less allowed for a respectable result again on what is a challengingly small target using an image scale of 0.84"/pix
All capture details are under the images
The Devils Mask:
Pbase and
Astro Bin
Go for a surf around countless galaxies in the full frame full res
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Cheers
Mike