A beautiful southern galaxy. I have wanted to image this one for some time.
I took this image over the Christmas break and it is a total of 6 hours.
Tak BRC 250, FLI Microline 8300, Astronomik filters, Tak NJP mount.
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/108037927
I probably will reshoot this one if opportunity permits with the TEC180mm using the same camera and it will make an interesting shootout - Tak versus TEC!
Greg.