As some of you will have read in my ranting about my wind problem (
) in the general chat section
..I did
finally get some good sky conditions, with little to no wind and reasonable seeing although the transparency was average to poor and I battled high cloud on night 1, so this is compiled using the best 5hrs or so of 8hrs of Luminance collected over the two nights, one with rather a lot of wind and some high cloud the other quite clear, steady and still (although a bit washed out)
This relatively rare set of circumstances called for a shot at something with fine details in it and some faint bits. So what better than the best, or at least most famous, example of interacting galaxies in the sky - The Antennae Galaxies in Corvus
Here is a 100% resolution crop of the main event:
Dancing Galaxies
Here is a Wider View at 80% resolution
The Antennae
A super high res close up:
Love Heart in Space
Here is a Hubble comparison to help identify the structures of the two merging galaxy cores picked up in my data
Hubble Comparison
And the full frame image in negative to show the faint details
Antennae in negative
Please note, no manual local enhancements (lasso etc) were applied to the antennae streams, this is how they came out of the camera after applying ddp and global stretching.
In the end after thinking I would be thwarted by the elements..I am quite happy with the result
Mike