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Old 12-10-2008, 05:41 PM
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Ngc 55

NGC 55 is a challenging target (for me anyway) - especially when the seeing never seems to get better than 2-3 arcsecs!

In spite of being binned 2x2, the chrominance had low S/N, so noise was pretty hard to control while still being able to deliver reasonably rich colour. I guess it's the kind of target that lends itself to megadata so I may add some more chrominance and Ha (to accentuate the HII regions) later. The overall result isn't tooooo bad though.

Small: http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/104403073/large
Large: http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/104403073/original

Hope you like it!

Cheers, Marcus
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