This time I had a few things against me, namely the moon which I had to wait to set before starting, thus cutting imaging time down, in the end I had to collect the colour data when the moon was up
As a result of the moon it took two nights to gather the 5.5hrs of data. The first night was pretty reasonable seeing but the second night was very windy and this took its toll and softened all my night two data In the end I chucked some subs but not having the luxury of a permanent setup yet, I am miserly with my chucking
Once again I have gone for depth over pure aesthetics (ie a tad noisy) but it's not too bad..besides, look at the faint details, what a messy twisted galaxy this is...must have an interesting history?
Anyway... here it is
Full Frame colour ** Check out the Superman galaxy at the very bottom of the image
The number of galaxies in that field is amazing, nicely done, just a question re the stars, is it my eyes again
...probably...actually no, the strong wind on night two elongated the stars in most of my subs particularly the colour data not toooo bad though, considering my scope is completely unprotected and on a slight rise
What is that Mike ?? Simply stunning, very deep and very well processed. One image to be proud of.
You are right, what strange history this galaxy must have !!
The image with you and your setup also looks great.
What a great deep image! As usual, the processing and colours are exceptional!
NGC1316 is one of the strongest and largest radio-galaxies in the southern sky and is believed to have consumed a spiral not so long ago -- that is where the dust lanes in its core supposedly come from ( http://www.aao.gov.au/images/captions/aat118.html )
Awesome, & an Interesting Field Mike, also inspiring as this humble duck and entry level gear would like to try capture it just to see if can get the slightest wiff of the tiny buggas : ) Prob not tho worth the try. kinda dig distant background galaxies !
Thanx for sharing
This time I had a few things against me, namely the moon which I had to wait to set before starting, thus cutting imaging time down, in the end I had to collect the colour data when the moon was up
As a result of the moon it took two nights to gather the 5.5hrs of data. The first night was pretty reasonable seeing but the second night was very windy and this took its toll and softened all my night two data In the end I chucked some subs but not having the luxury of a permanent setup yet, I am miserly with my chucking
Once again I have gone for depth over pure aesthetics (ie a tad noisy) but it's not too bad..besides, look at the faint details, what a messy twisted galaxy this is...must have an interesting history?
Anyway... here it is
Full Frame colour ** Check out the Superman galaxy at the very bottom of the image
High contrast B&W to show the full extensions of NGC 1316 and Milky Way Cirrus
Wow Mike, what an incredible image! It is on my todo as well, almost complete the collection of RGB but still missing the Luminance... but now where is the point for me to go ahead with such an unreachable result in front of me ?
Seriously mate you got an amazing image there, you deserve all the accolades and more for this. Now, please rotate the OTA so the spikes have the same orientation of the UKS' so can start puzzling who's who
In the end I chucked some subs but not having the luxury of a permanent setup yet, I am miserly with my chucking 
not the icy wind though...
