Galaxies in Love-4038pair

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F4.5, ATK16-HR, BaaderLRGB/Astrodon Ha.

After a long break with rain from Nov till May and balcony rebuilding at last I get a flourish of clear nights to image this strange pair. Ha did not add anything but got the arms, this would have been even better at a dark site but not bad for streetlights.

Had some collimation issues as I had not imaged deep space for so long and its amazing all the things you forget like collimating, balance, focusing and plugging things into the Laptop in order to get them to work.

Thanks, John.

[Dennis]

Hi John

A quite spectacular and lovely image, very quite impressive for the ‘burbs.

Cheers

Dennis

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Great image John!

So many interesting DSO's out there.

Cheers,

Justin.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Very nice images indeed John.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Impressive result John. What were the exposure details?

[Ross G]

A beautiful galaxy photo John.

Thanks.

Ross.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

That's pretty darn speccy John. Love it.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great close up of a though one. Really nice indeed.

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

The core area is great. Loads of colour and fine detail in the image.

[John Hothersall]

Thanks everyone, exposures were 15x10mins Lum and 6x5min each for RGB and 15x10min for Ha. These were too low from the UK but overhead here in Bris.

Regards, John.

[allan gould]

Nice one John

[whzzz28 (Nathan)]

Great shots there.

So much color and scale.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Very nice shot of this pair John, great colour, glad you are back in the saddle, I love your work with that 14" English light bucket

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice! I was imaging these guys on the weekend. I hope I can do half as well when I process mine...

Cheers,
Rick.

[Paul Haese]

Great resolution of this complex and difficult target. Colour is very nice and the image background is silky smooth. Well done.