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NGC 300 - LL HaRGB
SPX350 F4.5, ATK-16HR, Astrodon filters Ha5nm. LL HaRGB
This is one of the closest galaxies to the Milkyway at 6.1 mlyrs away and about 45,000lyrs diameter. It proved to be very faint and so cannot be imaged with a Moon present and colour was so dim I decided to binx2 along with Ha which provided a lot of noise in the final image that had to be deal with partially with a double luminance.
With Richardo's sensational widefield image you can see just how big this galaxy actually is and was bigger than I thought (bigger sensor needed I think) so a faint spiral arm is cut off at the top. This galaxy has large HII regions throughout which binning does not seem to have affected too much as well as large blue star clouds. Part of the luminance was taken in good seeing.
L=3hrs 20mins Binx1
Ha=12x5m Binx2
RGB=6x5m Binx2.
Thanks for looking.
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