NGC4945 Last Night

Hagar (Doug) · #1 13-03-2008, 11:51 AM

NGC 4945 taken with Tak FS102, Canon 40D. Stacked in DSS on average.
9 X 10 min Lights at ISO 800 and 8 X 10 min Darks.

iceman (Mike) · #2 13-03-2008, 12:10 PM

Nice result, Doug! The galaxy itself looks very nice.

The background may be a bit too dark though, and there's some horrible jpeg compression which detracts from a lovely galaxy widefield.

10 minute exposures! Nice! What ISO? How long did you take in drift aligning?

Hagar (Doug) · #3 13-03-2008, 12:33 PM

Thanks Mike. The joy of JPEG compression. ISO 800. Drift alignment took about 30 minutes. The EQ6 is mounted on a pier in my ROR Observatory.
10 minute subs and darks still makes for a long night.

Tamtarn · #4 13-03-2008, 09:28 PM

Nice detail in the galaxy Doug. I presume the two large stars were a result of cropping.

Ric · #5 13-03-2008, 10:51 PM

A nice image Doug, well done.

This galaxy looks quite popular tonight.

Cheers

EzyStyles (Eric) · #6 14-03-2008, 12:16 AM

great shot doug. alot of details around the central region of the galaxy.

skeltz (Rob) · #7 14-03-2008, 10:18 PM

good going doug,did you crop the pic?
I know with my fs102 and my stl11000k with the dedicated taka field flattner /reducer i still had to crop 50% of an image.
But hey the fs102 is a brilliant scope for what it was originally designed for!