NGC2903 in Leo

[RickS (Rick)]

A nice barred spiral in HaLRGB.

Captured at SRO, 6 Feb - 29 Mar, 2016

Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (0.843 arcsec/pixel after Drizzle/resample)
Exposures: 38x600s L, 22x1200s R, 14x1200s G, 22x1200s B, 13x1800s Ha (~32 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8

Acquisition credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Leonardo Orazi, Rob Pfile, Rick Stevenson and Jerry Yesavage.
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson

Full res/full field via Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/245560/

Thanks for looking. The full field is worth exploring. There are some lovely little galaxies (some examples in the attached crop.)

Cheers,
Rick.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Fantastic image Rick, so many faint and not so many faint galaxies in the background. The galaxy is nicely resolved. The stars in general to me a reminiscent of the Jewel Box Cluster

[alpal]

Hi Rick,
that's a wonderful picture of NGC 2903 & plenty of other galaxies too -
real eye candy.

Thanks for sharing.

cheers
Allan

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

That was a fun few minutes I had scanning the full res image lot's of interesting background galaxies.

A lovely wide, deep and very fine galaxy field image

Mike

[PRejto (Peter)]

Incredible shot Rick. Bravo!!

Peter

[willik (Willik)]

That is a very nice image and the colour tops

[billdan (Bill)]

Absolutely beautiful Rick, heaps of different styles of galaxies and the star colour is perfect with lots of variety.

Cheers
Bill

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Gorgeous colour and detail. Oh for such seeing! Beautifully processed, too.

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Fantastic image Rick, so many faint and not so many faint galaxies in the background. The galaxy is nicely resolved. The stars in general to me a reminiscent of the Jewel Box Cluster

Thanks, Colin! There are some interesting asterisms sprinkled about the field.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Rick,
that's a wonderful picture of NGC 2903 & plenty of other galaxies too -
real eye candy.

and thanks, Allan.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

That was a fun few minutes I had scanning the full res image lot's of interesting background galaxies.

A lovely wide, deep and very fine galaxy field image

Ta, Mike.

Originally Posted by PRejto

Incredible shot Rick. Bravo!!

Thanks, Peter.

Originally Posted by willik

That is a very nice image and the colour tops

Thanks, Willik.

Originally Posted by billdan

Absolutely beautiful Rick, heaps of different styles of galaxies and the star colour is perfect with lots of variety.

Thanks, Bill.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Gorgeous colour and detail. Oh for such seeing! Beautifully processed, too.

Thanks very much, M&T! We need a big scope like yours at SRO

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Stunning Rick. The background galaxies remind me of the Hubble deep field.
R

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks, Rodney!

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

That's sooooo good Rick (and team!)
Surely that's an IOTW?

[Somnium (Aidan)]

absolutely top notch, Amazing work

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

beautiful shot Rick. the back ground galaxies are fantastic.

cheers

russ

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

That's sooooo good Rick (and team!)
Surely that's an IOTW?

I agree, that B&W shot of a tiny fuzzy patch has been there for a while now ....

[RobF (Rob)]

Wonderful shot Rick. Love the subtle and honest background, but the galaxies whack you in the mouth like a frozen mullet. (that's a compliment )

[gregbradley]

That's a beauty Rick.

Greg.

[Ross G]

Amazing galaxy photo Rick.

Beautiful colours and detail.

Ross.

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

That's sooooo good Rick (and team!)
Surely that's an IOTW?

Thanks, Graham

Originally Posted by Somnium

absolutely top notch, Amazing work

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

beautiful shot Rick. the back ground galaxies are fantastic.

Thanks Aidan & Russ!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I agree, that B&W shot of a tiny fuzzy patch has been there for a while now ....

It's a very nice fuzzy patch though, Mike. I'd hate to be the one displace it

Originally Posted by RobF

Wonderful shot Rick. Love the subtle and honest background, but the galaxies whack you in the mouth like a frozen mullet. (that's a compliment )

And a wonderful compliment too, thanks Rob

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a beauty Rick.

Originally Posted by Ross G

Amazing galaxy photo Rick.

Beautiful colours and detail.

Thanks very much Greg & Ross.

[IanP]

absolutely marvelous