Often overlooked by imagers, for the nearby and more famous Grus Trio, NGC 7424 is a lovely face on spiral galaxy about 37 million light years away.
This was another single night image, facilitated by a lovely clear Moonless night on Thursday, with over 7hrs of useable data collected during less than 8.5hrs of darkness, to make a full LHaRGB image...close to a record for me..?
While not the best Eagleview turns on, the seeing largely cooperated to an acceptable level across the night, sitting mostly around a FWHM of 2" but a number of subs dipped down to 1.8" for a period around midnight.
All capture details can be found with the image:
Astro Bin
PBase
This is the last image to be taken with the SX Trius 694 Pro Blue edition before upgrading to the new arrival of its finer pixeled brethren, the 814 Pro
This will improve my image scale by 20% to take better advantage of the nights of good seeing at Eagleview, illustrated pretty well in
this comparison with my result from my previous observatory with all the same equipment and processing software. The increased sampling should also help in deconvolution, so here's hoping
Hope you enjoy
Mike