NGC7331 and surroundings

Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi) · #1 12-09-2011, 07:24 PM

After seeing the photos of Ken and Martin (

renew my congratulations to them), I must say that it takes a lot of courage to post my realization of NGC7331

. In any case, i apologize in advance, here is what I managed to get with my equipment after several nights of work:

http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC7331RC.htm

Greetings to all, and thanks for looking.
Leo

multiweb (Marc) · #2 12-09-2011, 07:27 PM

Mate, nothing to shy about. It's a superb shot and you're happy with it. That's all that matters.

Lester · #3 12-09-2011, 08:16 PM

Thanks for the view Leo, fantastic.

allan gould · #4 12-09-2011, 08:38 PM

Awesome photograph and you really have done the galaxy justice.

cybereye (Mario) · #5 13-09-2011, 07:27 AM

Leo,

A fantastic image!! I felt that I was being drawn into the centre of the galaxy - an amazing image.

Ciao,
Mario

atalas · #6 13-09-2011, 11:13 AM

Leo,excellent! wonderful color,great detail and very deep! inspirational.

SkyViking (Rolf) · #7 13-09-2011, 11:19 AM

Very nice!

Martin Pugh · #8 13-09-2011, 12:43 PM

Absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, it is a super image.
cheers
Martin

Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi) · #9 13-09-2011, 05:49 PM

Thank you to everyone who watched and commented on the image. Thanks Martin, your images are a reference for my work.

Ciao,
Leo

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #10 13-09-2011, 08:19 PM

Very nice inspiring image.

Stevec35 (Steve) · #11 13-09-2011, 11:09 PM

Nothing to be humble about there Leo. Lovely image!

Cheers

Steve

strongmanmike (Michael) · #12 14-09-2011, 12:23 AM

Yeh great shot Leo, has all the bits one expects in a Deer Lick image

Mike

Ross G · #13 14-09-2011, 07:14 AM

A great photo Leo.

You should be proud.

Thanks.

Ross.

Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi) · #14 14-09-2011, 05:33 PM

Thank you to all ...

Ciao,
Leo

John Hothersall · #15 14-09-2011, 05:40 PM

That RC certainly does produce detail and 7331's core has come out very well, love the spiral arms in the galaxy above 7331.

John.

Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz) · #16 14-09-2011, 06:09 PM

Excellent image Leonado!

Ted

madbadgalaxyman (Robert) · #17 15-09-2011, 11:57 AM

Very nice work, Leonardo,

The image looks good and deep.

Is there any sign of unusual or asymmetric optically luminous material outside of the main body of NGC 7331 when you display your imaging data at the highest contrast and brightness?

Another question is, what does the bulge (inner spheroidal) component of this galaxy look like,when the image is reproduced at a more lifelike scaling?
(The characteristic stretch adopted by both professional and amateur astronomers wipes out the bulge component of a galaxy, so we actually lose information when we try to display the outermost portions of a galaxy)

You may be aware that the most recent galaxy atlas, "The De Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies", adopts a similar image scaling (that is, a logarithmic scale), so the displayed images in this atlas tell us only about the planar disk component of spiral and S0 galaxies.....and tell us nothing about the prominence or shape of the spheroidal component in these galaxies.

A good corrective to these stretched "disk component only" images are the old-fashioned chemical process images in the Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, which have no fancy processing whatsoever. These images preserve information about the bulge component of galaxies.

Peter.M · #18 15-09-2011, 01:36 PM

I have just started out doing astrophotography, and on these forums in general. But this is the kind of image that I aspire too.

Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi) · #19 15-09-2011, 09:24 PM

Robert, i tried to put 2 image, one high stretched and one linear stretched on the bulge ... i hope this give a response to your interesting question:

No elaboration on this 2 image:
http://www.starkeeper.it/img/L_Core_NoStr.jpg
http://www.starkeeper.it/img/L_HiStr.jpg

Please let me know your consideration about.

All the best,
Leo

mill (Martin) · #20 15-09-2011, 09:42 PM

Very nicely done and perfect colors.