This is the latest image out of Clayton Observatories. Totalling 27.5 hours of data with 15.5 hours in luminance. NGC2442 also known as the Meat Hook Galaxy or the Cobra Galaxy. It is a faint object at Mag 11.2 and lies at a distance of 50 million light years. I found that even subs of 30 minutes presented problems with noise once lots of stretching occurred.
Of interest in the field of view are quite a variety of galaxy types. There also appears to be some cirrus across the field, though I am happy to be corrected if this is not the case.
The dome GSO RC12 system is now fully operational with imaging runs being conducted on every clear night. Though some flexure still exists which is affecting the star shapes in the corners at present (I have had to crop this image by 10%), though the manufactures, retailers and I have been working on a viable solution to the existing minor problem.
As you can see the optics which are typical for GSO RC's provide a sharp view of this object. It has taken over 2 years for me to present another image taken with set of optics and I am reasonably pleased with the results. I look forward to many hours of imaging with this system and have started a collection of Galaxies and narrow field objects I would like to image in the coming years.
I still feel the need to collect a lot more data on this object to eliminate the noise and will present a revised once I have completed the task. Though for now I present this view.
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- kidding)... but then I would be bowing to the trend of only picking apart the minor aspects of processing and completely forgetting about the object imaged 
Suffice to say it is a great image of what I have always thought was a somewhat ugly galaxy (no offence to its parents) so well done there, the dust lane is quite clear and I love the companion galaxies in the FOV.
