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Old 11-01-2009, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
This is one of the first galaxy images I have taken with the Tak BRC 250 and FLI Microline 8300.

The F5 of the BRC shows it strength by showing the faint outer spirals of this beautiful spiral galaxy that are not normally shown.

LRGB 90 30 30 30 all colour 2x2 binning and 1x1 for the luminance.

http://upload.pbase.com/image/108016422

Greg.
Greg not bad, but....sorry the data lacks fine detail and structure.

As to the reasons...perhaps not enough FL or seeing not great on the night?

The stars look a little bloated to me. More the pity as the S/N looks to be excellent.
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