OH NOOO another 253! but can`t help myself

[Garyh]

Hi Folks,
I know another NGC 253 and another silver dollar! but I just can`t help myself in trying to ring out every photon from this marvelous galaxy. Also wan`t really happy with the last effort due to average seeing conditions, Also its well placed for a evening shot. Seeing was quiet good and everything went smoothly for the nearly 3 hours of data with the 20D. 28 x 6 min subs at iso 800 plus flats and darks made for a rather late night..
I tried to do minimal processing on this to try to give it the more natural feel to it but I did do some minor contrast enhancement on the galaxy itself. The rest of the image has only levels, curves and a little contrast and saturation followed by minor noise reduction. Still some noise visible but I like it as it is.
Easily my best effort of this galaxy to date...
Cropped and reduced to 80% original size for posting....
All comments most welcome!
cheers and CS Gary

[DeanoNZL (Adrian)]

Nice one Gary,
Loads of detail coming thru...

[Peter Ward]

Thank goodness. Some image scale! ..no teeny bug marks on a windscreen here

Not bad. Not bad at all.

[peeb61 (Paul)]

Now that is 253! Great image Gary.
Well worth the time spent. Is it a modded 20D Gary? And cropped just nicely, lots of detail, colour, mate I could go on...

Paul

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent image of 253 Gary!

I assume that was the 6" F5.6? So only some 800mm FL? Some great details visible aaaaand I like your crop orientation, looks very familar

Not sure what you mean by remaining noise??? it looks pretty smooth to me..? Probably too smooth even? There are most likely some faint details and background galaxies lost in your smoothing process..?

Great work, you do some of the best DSLR deep sky work around

Mike

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Way to go Gary!! Nice Pic!

Cheers, Marcus

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Wow!

[AlexN]

Stunner! Top effort Gary!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Gary,

Wonderful, wonderful!

Love the work on the core, too.

It's images such as yours that make me salivate at the prospect of DSLR imaging again. Soon, very soon.

Cheers, mate.

Regards,
Humayun

[RobF (Rob)]

Beautiful work Gary.
Thanks for showing.

[winensky]

Great detail but above all some real depth as well. Oh and... not much noise that I can see. a lovely shot.

[Garyh]

Originally Posted by DeanoNZL

Nice one Gary,
Loads of detail coming thru...

Thanks Adrian! glad you stopped by for a look!
cheers

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Thank goodness. Some image scale! ..no teeny bug marks on a windscreen here

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Thanks Peter, I am happy with the end result! I don`t think I can squeeze an more from a 6" newt!
cheers

Originally Posted by peeb61

Now that is 253! Great image Gary.
Well worth the time spent. Is it a modded 20D Gary? And cropped just nicely, lots of detail, colour, mate I could go on...

Paul

Ta Paul, certainly worth plenty of time! yes my 20D is a modded one complements of Eric!
thanks for looking..

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Excellent image of 253 Gary!

I assume that was the 6" F5.6? So only some 800mm FL? Some great details visible aaaaand I like your crop orientation, looks very familar

Not sure what you mean by remaining noise??? it looks pretty smooth to me..? Probably too smooth even? There are most likely some faint details and background galaxies lost in your smoothing process..?

Great work, you do some of the best DSLR deep sky work around

Mike

Much appreciated Mike! , I try! Well in the full size version I notice the noise but its rather minimal. As for the orientation it was the other way around and I decided to rotate it some. Must look its best with the darker dust lanes below? Have to revisit your site and have a peep!
cheers Gary

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Way to go Gary!! Nice Pic!

Cheers, Marcus

Glad you didn`t mind it Marcus!
Thanks for Looking....

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Wow!

Thanks Jeanette! I enjoy sharing my images the good the bad and sometimes the ugly!
Cs Gary

Originally Posted by AlexN

Stunner! Top effort Gary!

Thanks alex...Always welcome...

Originally Posted by Octane

Gary,

Wonderful, wonderful!

Love the work on the core, too.

It's images such as yours that make me salivate at the prospect of DSLR imaging again. Soon, very soon.

Cheers, mate.

Regards,
Humayun

Thanks Humayun, Glad it gets the creative juices going!
I miss images like yours and Eric`s here. shall be good to see you posting some of your fine works again!

Originally Posted by RobF

Beautiful work Gary.
Thanks for showing.

Thankyou Rob for looking! it didn`t come out too bad!

Thanks again everyone! Bad weather here and I know why, my 8" mirror has just turned up and now its pouring down!
cheers Gary

[Lester]

Top class image Gary.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice image Gary. Sharp detail, good focus, good tracking. Well done.

[bluescope]

Very nice Gary .... I can't help tweaking things a bit .... hope you don't mind .... here's the result .... hope you like it !
By the way I only tweak what I consider to be good images to start with.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by bluescope

Very nice Gary .... I can't help tweaking things a bit .... hope you don't mind .... here's the result .... hope you like it !
By the way I only tweak what I consider to be good images to start with.

Ah..Tweaky Bird Steve

Not sure I agree with you this time though.

At least you didn't run Gary's image through Jase's compressive contrast stretching image annihilator

Mike

[bluescope]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Ah..Tweaky Bird Steve

Not sure I agree with you this time though.

At least you didn't run Gary's image through Jase's compressive contrast stretching image annihilator

Mike

I don't even know about Jase's image compressive stretching do-dad Mike .... just whiling the hours away over here in the cloudy west !

[spearo (Frank)]

great shot, look at all the detail!
I wish mine turned out like that!
very well done
frank