NGC55 Galaxy in Scupltor from last night

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

Hi Gang,

I feel asleep middle of the way and took 44 x 84 second exposure at it autoguided. Was planning to only take 15-20

Comments welcome.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Lovely pic showing some nice dark lane detail in the galaxy.
Well done

[Lester]

Hi Eric,

tracking is spot on there. That is a big galaxy.

[Striker (Tony)]

Well done Eric...yep tracking looks good.

You can never take too many exposures...always strive for more exposures then not enough.

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

Many thanks for comments guys. appreciated. Was hard to find a guidestar esp with a 4" newt as a guidescope.

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

you should fall asleep more often!

lots of detail there

but if your tracking is this good why stop at 84 seconds? why not go up to to 2 or even 5 minutes????

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

thanks seeker i needed the sleep. Currently just testing the autoguiding so i sticked to my 84sec just incase. Also, if there are frames that need to be discarded due to cloud coverings, tracking error, pec etc, i will feel better discarding a 84 sec frame than a 5 minute frame

[Itchy]

Eric,
Yea, longer subs would help. This is actually a tough galaxy to image (aren't they all ).

A nice image, though it could have been frammed a little better.

Cheers

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

Cheers Tony. Thanks for the feedback. what is subs? as in exposure?

[Itchy]

Originally Posted by EzyStyles

Cheers Tony. Thanks for the feedback. what is subs? as in exposure?

Yes, sub exposures make up the stack.

Cheers