NGC 3511 - Stoked!

[codemonkey (Lee)]

It was November 13 the last time I successfully imaged something; nothing but terrible weather and hardware problems since. I've spent the past few clear nights trying to get my guiding acceptable and my new EQ8 well enough aligned. Finally got it last night.

The data here isn't great, it's only about 17 x 220s, so it's not much to look at it, but I'm stoked all the same. Mean FWHM ~ 2.9 (calculated in PixInsight), when I was getting 4+ before.

Total RMS was often around 0.8", getting as low as 0.6", not totally perfect when imaging at 0.74", but waaaay better than I was able to get previously.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Made a more serious attempt at processing it this morning

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice job Lee - congrats!

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Thanks Russell! :-)

Obviously a serious attempt at this rather dim galaxy would require a lot more integration time, but it's nice to have things working.

Should be able to spent some time on serious attempts now... except of course the forecast is back to showers/storms for the foreseeable future.

[RickS (Rick)]

Looks good, Lee! Some more data and you're in business.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Thanks Rick :-)

To be honest this one isn't high on my list to image, it just happened to be above 45d east when I was testing so it was an appropriately placed target. I'll probably not bother gathering more data on this just yet.