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Old 26-09-2011, 08:18 AM
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NGC 253 galaxy

Had a go last night at trying to get an image of this lovely object.

The guiding was still not as good as I would have like,there was a fair bit of smoke around yesterday and heat haze-the stars seemed to be 'twinklling',not sure if such conditions affect guiding.Bit I wanted to make an attempt while no moon about.

I used 6 subs and 5 darks at 4 min each,I used DSS and then CS5 adjustments.

I had difficulty in getting images into DSS,I converted them all to tiffs,but nothing appeared,I had to do a bit of jiggling to load the RAWs in.eventually managed something.

Anyhow here is my attempt,feed back welcomed-thanks for looking,Chris
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