Ngc4945

[meade expert]

Hi All


Taken 20/8/06 at Jerrara Dam NSW
Object is galaxy NGC4945 and companion galaxy
Taken through an Orion ED80 using a celestron f6.3 focal reducer and a Canon 350D piggybacked on an lx200 Classic.
Exposure at ISO 800 , 4 images at 2 mins each stacked in Deepskystacker software and
processed in Photoshop Cs2 using custom star bloat plugin and adjustments using curves function.
Temperature was 1 deg C at Jerrara.
Images were not guided.

[rogerg (Roger)]

Nice result especially for no guiding! It's a nice composition too. The fully exposed stars aren't quite white (slight off-white), I'd prefer them to be white. But that's perhaps just my personal opinnion.

ED80 + 350D is a hefty wieght for the LX ... what size LX and what weight system do you use to balance it? I used to have my Megrez on my 12" LX but ended up taking it off after being unable to fully balance it with the weights I had.

Roger.

[RAJAH235]

Hi Joe, You're definitely getting the hang of that set-up now. Nice catch. Even got an extra in the corner.
See you on W/E.. L.

[sheeny (Al)]

Nice one, Joe!

I was observing exactly this with my 20x80T binoculars at the same time! I could see NGC4945, but not sure if I could make out NGC4976 (in the bottom right corner of your image) or NGC4945A which looks like it has a relatively bright star in front of it (about opposite NGC4945 relative to the centre of your image).

What a coincidence, and a good capture!

Al.