Galaxy NGC 55

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Better put one in here's NGC 55 looks like its had some sort of encounter as its not symetrical but i dont see an obvious candidate

[Lee]

Love it! What scope/camera/exposures was this done with?

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice Shot! According to wikipedia NGC55 is a "Barred Irregular" Galaxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_55

[Tamtarn]

We enjoy looking at this one visually. So thanks for posting a great image

[Ric]

Great image, you have captured some nice detail in that one.

Cheers

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Done with 12 inch newt on G11 mount autoguided with guidedog and ed80, unmodded 350d , 8 exposures of 360 secs at 800. 4 darks at same exposure done on the night.... i find i get better results that way, i used to do a bank of darks and reuse but i gave up on that.

Stacked and dark subtracted in AIP4 Win, taken to photoimpact12 for levels and selective color saturation (red-yellow) resized to 25% (for your image), taken back to AIP for highlight sharpening so its only working on galaxy brighter sections then remerged with copy of prior to sharpening to retain a softness to the galaxy but still show some detail.... to me that looks better than seeing artifacts. thats pretty much it .... no noise reduction as you just lose detail.

[Garyh]

Nice one Alchemy! nice and detailed and smooth...have to have a go at this one!
cheers

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

Great detail in that shot!