NGC 5189 - the spiral planetary

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Looking for something to image on a pretty good night I thought I would give NGC 5189 a go. It's a fairly popular object and I've imaged it many times before but this is the first time with the current gear. Being fairly bright it only required about 8 hours of imaging time.

Cheers

Steve

http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/n...16200_RC14.htm

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

A very fine image. Deep, lots of nebular detail, and beautiful RGB star colours.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

A very fine image. Deep, lots of nebular detail, and beautiful RGB star colours.

Thanks M&T. Yes, I was pretty happy with this one. t's certainly the best image of it that I've taken.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Nice image Steve. Not an easy object.
Geoff

[Atmos (Colin)]

Really nice Steve! It looks near identical to what I was seeing visually through a 32” over the weekend... in greyscale though.

[Peter Ward]

Nice one Steve. It's not an easy target to do justice to, but you've done that in spades here.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Nice one Steve. It's not an easy target to do justice to, but you've done that in spades here.

Thanks Peter. It's one I keep coming back to and every new image I do of it seems to be a little better than the last one.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Really nice Steve! It looks near identical to what I was seeing visually through a 32” over the weekend... in greyscale though.

Thanks Colin. Matt Saarikko emailed me saying he was observing it with a 32". He must have been with you.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice image Steve. Not an easy object.
Geoff

Thanks Geoff. I've had plenty of practice with it. You have to carefully balance the bright and faint areas when you are processing it.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Nice rich colours Steve.

Mike

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice rich colours Steve.

Mike

Thanks Mike. Hopefully I didn't overdo the saturation.