Galaxies in Fornax

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

A wide field image of lots of galaxies in the constellation of Fornax. Star of the show is NGC 1365 (centre) with Fornax A in the bottom right of the image. Lots of other small galaxies as well (haven't tried to count them all yet!).

Acquisition
R, G & B @ 300s
Ha @ 900s
Darks, flats, bias
Total of 12.8 hours of data processed.

Hardware
Canon EOS 200mm F2.8 prime lens (stopped down to about F4 with a step down ring on the front of the lens)
QSI 683 CCD
Piggy backed on my Skywatcher 900mm refractor
EQ8 mount
Guide camera = Lodestar x2

Software
Sequence Generator Pro for image capture
Pixinsight 1.8 processing

Link to Astrobin image here.

Comments and critique welcome.

[Somnium (Aidan)]

Great shot Rodney, looks fantastic

[RickS (Rick)]

Wow! Love it, Rodney!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah, cool to see wide field galaxy shots like this Rodney, thanks for the different perspective, nice work.

Mike

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Awesome! Quite a haul.

[astronobob (Bob)]

must be 30 at least, well executed Rodney, lovely to gaze over the bin file - Top widefield show

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

great shot Rodney!
these widefield galaxy shots are definitely worth it.

Russ

[gregbradley]

I agree with all the posts. An intriguing and interesting shot with a different to normal perspective.

Greg.

[el_draco (Rom)]

Damn, thats really pretty!

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

Nice one Rodney I can pick out quite a few small galaxies. Great wide field.
Erik

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Thanks everyone for the great feedback.

It was a fun journey arriving at this composition as I was scrolling around Sky Safari on the iPad looking for something to fill in whilst waiting for my next object (M45) to be better positioned. When the galaxy clusters in Fornax popped into view I figured that they would be worth a shot.

RW

[Paul Haese]

Well done Rodney. I have been imaging part of this area myself with the FSQ, but I don't have the same coverage that you do here. I really like the field of view you have here with NGC1316 also in the image as well as NGC1365. Nice colouring overall but maybe the background has a hint too much red. Still a lovely view.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Well done Rodney. I have been imaging part of this area myself with the FSQ, but I don't have the same coverage that you do here. I really like the field of view you have here with NGC1316 also in the image as well as NGC1365. Nice colouring overall but maybe the background has a hint too much red. Still a lovely view.

Thanks Paul.
Some mosaics of this area with your FSQ would be very interesting.

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's a very cool widefield Rodney. Sharp as. Well done.