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Old 20-07-2014, 08:58 PM
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Galaxies and more Galaxies

Hello everyone, back after a long absence I have just posted a couple of images of galaxies fields.
The first is about Abell1736 is a rarely imaged rich galaxy cluster in the constellation of Hydra that comprise hundreds of galaxies sparse on less than two degrees of sky. Unfortunately none of these galaxies is particularly large to show many details with amateur telescopes.

Abell 1736 regular version
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There are at least 200 galaxies taken in this field, it fascinates me to think about what it may hide in any of these tiny spots..

The second field, is a very nice area but not so often imaged known as the Dorado group.

The Dorado group

This is a loose concentration of galaxies containing both spirals and ellipticals. It is generally considered a 'galaxy group' but may approach the size of a 'galaxy cluster'. It lies primarily in the southern constellation Dorado and is one of the richest galaxy groups of the Southern Hemisphere. A rough distance estimate puts the cluster about 50 million light years away.
The dominant member of Dorado Group and also its brightest member is NGC 1566 (top left in the image). This is an intermediate spiral galaxy, meaning that while it does not have a well defined bar-shaped region of stars at its centre — like barred spirals — it is not quite an unbarred spiral either. NGC 1566 is the second brightest Seyfert galaxy in the sky. Seyfert galaxies have a very luminous nucleus with many of the characteristics of a quasar, though much less energetic.
At the center of the Dorado group lie interacting galaxies NGC 1553 and NGC 1549 (center right on the image), respectively the second and third brightest member of the cluster. Their interaction appears to be in the early stage and can be seen in optical wavelengths by faint but distinct irregular shells of emission and a curious jet on the northwest side.
Another prominent galaxy at bottom right of the image is NGC 1546, an 11th-magnitude lenticular galaxy.

Exposure data are on each image. I hope you will enjoy them.

Clear skies
Marco
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Old 20-07-2014, 09:08 PM
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Marvellous images Marco. A real treat.

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Old 20-07-2014, 09:22 PM
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Lovely fields chock full of galaxies, Marco!
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Excellent fields Marco

Thanks for posting these - you always have such natural but vibrant colours in your images and these are no exception.

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Old 21-07-2014, 08:40 AM
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Really nice field with great contrast between the galaxies and as usual some excellent depth from a small scope Funny, I was going to do almost that exact 1566 field back when I had the 16803 on the AG12 but well, you know how it goes, the best laid plans of mice and men....

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Superb as usual Marco!

Impressive detail from your scope.
Your backgrounds are always, as far as I can see perfect.
How do you get such uniformity ?

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lovely images Marco. excellent detail and colour.
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Nice galaxy group. That makes for an interesting field of view. I really like the colours.
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So many galaxies. Amazing image.
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Impressive!
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Marvellous images Marco. A real treat.

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Thanks Greg!

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Lovely fields chock full of galaxies, Marco!
Thanks Rick, happy you liked it

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Excellent fields Marco

Thanks for posting these - you always have such natural but vibrant colours in your images and these are no exception.

Pete
Thanks Pete, I spend lots of time to try finding the "right" color balance and saturation, I am glad you appreciate it..

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Really nice field with great contrast between the galaxies and as usual some excellent depth from a small scope Funny, I was going to do almost that exact 1566 field back when I had the 16803 on the AG12 but well, you know how it goes, the best laid plans of mice and men....

Mike
Thanks Mike, I believe as time comes the improvement on that field with your larger scope will be quite noticeable

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Superb as usual Marco!

Impressive detail from your scope.
Your backgrounds are always, as far as I can see perfect.
How do you get such uniformity ?

Cheers,

Justin.
Hi Justin, thanks. I use PixInsight for the first half of my processing and the removal of gradients is one of the main tasks that this package support extremely well with its DBE function..

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lovely images Marco. excellent detail and colour.
Thanks Shiraz

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Nice galaxy group. That makes for an interesting field of view. I really like the colours.
Thanks Paul!

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So many galaxies. Amazing image.
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Impressive!
Thanks to you too Kevin and Luiz!

Clear skies
Marco
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