[Maurice]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Maurice,
quite a good image considering that it's from
the light polluted suburbs of Melbourne with a colour camera
and on a dim Mag 11 target.
With 2 or 3 hours more careful processing you may have been
able to obtain an extra 10 to 20% out of the image in
the high noise areas.
By splitting the channels -
the blue channel had the most background noise.



cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan.
I think that I spent a total of about 30min processing the post calibration data after APP did its thing.
Maybe I should spend more time refining the result.
I think that I literally only applied a slight high pass filter from within APP & then tweaked the colour balance a tad.
I'm just lazy, I guess.....

Originally Posted by multiweb

Simply superb Maurice.
People don't seem to realise this is tiny and faint.

Cheers Marc.
It is difficult to get detail in the spiral arms of this one.
I had to wait to get some reasonable seeing to start to bring out some of the brighter HII regions. I was quite pleased with the detail in the 'companion' NGC1232A as well.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A very good result from city skies Morris

I love NGC 1232, a real mans galaxy!

Mike

Thanks Mike.
It is quite a challenge to get a decent result on this one from city skies.
Flats have to be pretty good as well as having a good light pollution removal algorithm.
I'm happy with the way that APP does this.

...not sure about the 'real man's galaxy' comment... I do like the occasional beer - but I prefer a good shiraz (I am Italian)

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

The GSO14 is a bit of a beast which you have obviously tamed very
well Maurice.

Very nice indeed ....but no mention of the mount?

Thank you Peter..
'tis quite a beast to tame. I wish that GSO would put just a bit more effort into the mechanics of the OTA, because I think that the optics are fundamentally quite OK.
I changed the focuser to a 'NightCrawler', which made a big difference, but keeping collimation can be a chore.

As for the mount; I'm afraid that its just my usual workhorse, the EQ8.
It has proven to be very reliable & acceptably accurate over the past few years. I now us N.I.N.A to control it & with ASTAP plate-solving works a treat.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Maurice.

Nicely processed.

Greg.

Much appreciated Greg. Thank you.