[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by atalas

Nice shot Greg...lots of faint galaxies around.

Cheers Louie. Yes the little faint galaxies show up often with this scope.

Originally Posted by p1taylor

That is really sum shot wonderful detail, yes there are quite a few in the northern hemisphere, only trouble is whether in UK, wish I could get that much detail in my shots.

peter

Thanks Peter. Weather is always the barrier.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Love these groups, imaculate stars and great colour detail around the cores, tiny fuzzies make the image so complex.

John.

Thanks John. I like these groupings as well, it makes the field more interesting.

Originally Posted by Gem

Short?? It was 3 hours 40 minutes!

Nice shot!

I know what he means. I usually do much longer as well with galaxies.
In this case it was fairly bright and the 17 inch aperture and F4.45 which is very very fast for a large scope worked in my favour. I probably will add a bit more to it to see what I can get.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

It certainly was a nice shot. Many people expose galaxies longer than that to build up the signal to noise ratio, thus enabling more aggressive processing to bring out detail in what are low signal to noise ratio objects. My normal time for galaxies is 6-10 hours.

Good point Steve. I think I will add a bit more to it to see what it does.
I was mainly imaging Comet Garradd which can't wait of course so it wsa playing second fiddle at the time.

Originally Posted by RobF

Really nice work Greg. Some wonderful colour and detail coming out in there without looking least bit overdone.

Thanks Rob. Its always a goal to try to process an image and make it look natural and like you haven't processed it at all. Not always successful in that regard but it is definitely a criterion that I keep in mind.

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

Another winner, Greg! You are on a roll!

Tom

Thanks Tom. The weather seems to have gone into clear mode at the moment and no moon - woohoo!

Greg.