Seeing as it is black and white season, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring!
The colour data I collected for this was rubbish and I don't know what the hell is going on with my flats which wouldn't calibrate so I did an L only image.
Here is NGC104 and NGC121, which I believe is a globular cluster in two different galaxies, the Milky Way and the small Magellanic Cloud.
You've shown a tiny galaxy shining through the outskirts of NGC 104 at about 9 o'clock. Nifty.
Hi M&T, yes, cool isn't it? I spotted it the other day and tried to solve it and couldn't and then forgot. I must run it through an online solver tonight.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Shame about the colour data but the lum is very good!
Thanks Rick. When I complete the next project I moved onto I will redo the colour as should have sorted my flats by then as well.
Very clear and bright with those little clusters kron 11 or kron 21 showing through. My NGC 104 in the beginners section while coloured is not so bright and the Kron clusters are just faint smudges. Do you have many varied layers to achieve that brightness? Clarity and varied brightness seems to be an issue with these clusters that I am not sure how to solve.
Looks good Bart, I agree with Paul, yours is much better of course... but here is a photo of an old print of Omega Cen I took in about March 1984 with a 5" Celestron SCT
Mike
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Hello Ray. I used several differing exposure lengths to try to tame the core. I took a few 30 seconds and some 2 minutes to combine with the 5 minute ones at processing time. I could have shown every star in the core using that technique however; even through an eyepiece we do not see it like that, the centre is always quite bright so I adjusted it to what I think I remember what it looks like in a larger dob.
Hello Ray. I used several differing exposure lengths to try to tame the core. I took a few 30 seconds and some 2 minutes to combine with the 5 minute ones at processing time. I could have shown every star in the core using that technique however; even through an eyepiece we do not see it like that, the centre is always quite bright so I adjusted it to what I think I remember what it looks like in a larger dob.
