I just been checking which way it will be rising and have found that it be totally obscured by my neighbours garage and then by a tree. I've been rulled out before I even started.
Oh well, I'll just enjoy everyone elses images and hopefully be back for the November challenge.
For me at Newcastle, Star Atlas Pro indicates it transits at 1:39 am now, so once the moon is gone I will give it a good go. For me its anything north of dec. 0 thats a problem
Scott
I have been rechecking 1097's positions in my trusty Star Atlas Pro and I now may get a chance at it later in the month.
I will watching it's movements with anticipation
and hopefully bag an image.
here's my effort from last night . 12 x 4 minutes at iso 800. no shooting jets from the core unfortunately but NGC1097A is situated top left of the galaxy.
You beat me to it Eric, good job ...
I had a go last night too before the moon came up.
Its hard to bring detail out from a small faint galaxy but heres my go..
7 frames at 1600 iso - 4mins each eith darks removed all the rest in PS..
6" reflector at f/5.6.
Cheers Gary
I managed to get out last night and image the October Imaging Challenge - NGC 1097
I cleaned my filters and CCD window and it made a hell of a difference with fewer and much less obvious dust motes, so this image has no darks and no flats!
Autoguiding was spot on and all of the 30 odd subs at 4 - 6 min each were good
It's an LRGB = 100 20 20 24 min
Deffinitely not enough colour data under light polluted skies (I should have binned the RGB 2X2... doh!) but I did ma best with what I had.
The image is spoiled by the too round stars and wealth of gorgeous detail; a real world image would have slightly elongated stars with fuzzy bits, evidence of a gradient or two and a smattering of noise.
But seriously, this is an amazing image. The detail is awesome and the acquisition and processing spot on.
Here`s my second attempt at it as my first was very noisey, Consists of the original 7 frames at 4min 1600 iso plus 4 frames at 8 min at 800 iso. Seeing was not as good as the night before but overall I am pretty happy with this go..might add some more frames to it tonight if not too tired and the seeing is good...
Cheers Gary.....
I noticed this thread while messing around with my Losmandy last night and thought I may as well put the SBIG to use. I'm reasonably happy with the raw images but can't get even brightness across the image - the core is bleeding out too much. Really just a problem caused by the fact my old PhotoShop version (5.5) can't load FITS so I have to convert them to TIF and then adjust levels/gamma .... so I lose information. Hmm. Money money money.
Interestingly there's clearly a edge-on galaxy in the top left. I've attached a brightened version to show it clearer.
Viewing was pretty bad, Rigel was blinking on and off like a strobe light.
I noticed this thread while messing around with my Losmandy last night and thought I may as well put the SBIG to use. I'm reasonably happy with the raw images but can't get even brightness across the image - the core is bleeding out too much. Really just a problem caused by the fact my old PhotoShop version (5.5) can't load FITS so I have to convert them to TIF and then adjust levels/gamma .... so I lose information. Hmm. Money money money.
Interestingly there's clearly a edge-on galaxy in the top left. I've attached a brightened version to show it clearer.
Viewing was pretty bad, Rigel was blinking on and off like a strobe light.
Roger.
Het Roger that's a good image mate! How'd ya get the stars so round with a LX200 classic?? wow!
Yes that is an edge on spiral in the image, it shows up ok in my Luminance too - I think I had beeter seeing ?:
