I love dark skies...
NGC-253
18x600sec subs. Calibrated with flats and darks.
I am posting both the full frame, and the 100% crop to show the detail...
I'm really happy with how this turned out, and rather amazed that the dust lanes were resolvable with my setup... I didnt think 80mm of aperture would get it.. but there it is..
I'm now wishing I'd spent more time on it..
Hah, funny story actually.. I did waste 70 minutes... I got the framing right, I used the subframe mode in MaximDL so it was only downloading a small area of the image to speed up the process... In any case, I set up my imaging run which was to be 12 light frames for that night to go with the 12 I had taken the night before.. I clicked start, then went for a walk down to the observing field and spent the next hour or so using Ron's 16" dob to have a visual squiz at a few things... I got back up to my rig to have a look at how things were going... I forgot to turn off sub frame mode..
70 minutes of GOOD data, down the drain... I stopped the run, turned off subframe mode and proceeded to take 6x600sec images, bringing the total to 18 frames.. Haha... Lesson learnt I guess..
Cheers for looking.