[Mark_Heli (Mark)]

When I was up early on Tuesday morning taking pictures of Saturn, I also captured three bright galaxies - Hamburger Galaxy, Sombrero Galaxy and M83.

I know they are pretty basic pictures, but not bad for an Alt/Az mount. No doubt Homer Simpson would like the Hamburger galaxy - MMmmm galaxy..... I wonder if there is a donut galaxy.

I also found that in processing them, the pictures look quite different on different monitors. If I process them on my laptop, they are way too bright and noisy when viewed on a desktop. In the end I re-processed them on the desktop.

Date: Tuesday 3/1/2012: ~3:30AM
Location: Sydney
Telescope: Meade LX90
Mount: Alt/Az
Camera: Canon EOS 550d
Exposures: 10 @ 30 secs. ISO 6400
Processing Software: DSS / Paint.NET

Cheers,
Mark