My best Silvercoin galaxy pic to date!

[Garyh]

Hi all again,
Finally had some clear steady sky after the low cloud broke up last night.. Well early this morning anyway!
Managed to setup and get 14 x 5 min of NGC 253 before dawn started.
Seeing was about average but steady and very transparent skies.
also nice and cool which the canon loves too..
Very happy with the guiding etc and with the result. Only had to trash 1 image for trailing which is pretty good for me!
Imaged with my canon 300d and 6" newt
All comments welcome, good and bad!!!!...
cheers and CS
Gary

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Awesome Gary, look at the detail!!!

[allan gould]

Very nice image - great colour, detail and guiding

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful image, really lovely Gary. So much detail in the spiral arms and core.

The background is probably a tad blue to my eyes?

[browndog (Ian)]

That is a great looking image Gary. Congratulation.
I really like the colour and detail.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

WOW! Lovely image, Gary!!!

It creams mine!
Nice detail, colour, and framing

Wanna sell your 300D

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Beautiful picture Gary. Galaxies really need wide star field like you've got to show them off well.

[DJDD]

is it possible to get such a shot using an ED80 + camera or DSI?

would it simply be a matter of exposure times + stacking?

i apologise in advance if these are stupid questions.

EDITED: forgot to say- awesome photo. galaxies look great, especially when they are oriented this way.

cheers,
DJDD

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by DJDD

is it possible to get such a shot using an ED80 + camera or DSI?
would it simply be a matter of exposure times + stacking?

i apologise in advance if these are stupid questions.


DJDD

DJ, not to put Gary's image to shame but here is one of my images of the same Galaxy (uncropped, unprocessed single image) just to show you size of FOV using an ED80 and Focal reducer.

Quality of DSLR's is way better than DSI, Toucam etc. as Gary's image shows

[DJDD]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

DJ, not to put Gary's image to shame but here is one of my images of the same Galaxy (uncropped, unprocessed single image) just to show you size of FOV using an ED80 and Focal reducer.

Quality of DSLR's is way better than DSI, Toucam etc. as Gary's image shows

thanks, Ken.
so you used the ED80 and your old toucam, i presume. To my untrained eye the FOV is similar, although gary's seems slightly larger.

It will be interesting to compare the image to the DSI.

Sorry, Gary- did not mean to hijack the thread.

cheers,
DJDD

[Garyh]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Awesome Gary, look at the detail!!!

Thanks Jenette! I am quiet happy with the details showing..

Originally Posted by allan gould

Very nice image - great colour, detail and guiding

cheers Allan, just happy to get a sort of descent night.

Originally Posted by iceman

Beautiful image, really lovely Gary. So much detail in the spiral arms and core.

The background is probably a tad blue to my eyes?

Thanks Mike.. Your`e right as I reloaded it back in PS and the blue is up slightly...Will have to fix that and bring it down a bit...cheers..

Originally Posted by browndog

That is a great looking image Gary. Congratulation.
I really like the colour and detail.

Thanks Ian for the nice comment... I think I have the galaxy color pretty close, maybe a bit too blue...cheers

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

WOW! Lovely image, Gary!!!

It creams mine!
Nice detail, colour, and framing

Wanna sell your 300D

Thanks Ken for the comments..
Maybe I should sell it to you? its would be nearly worn out..
Have fun with your new toy!!! and look forwards to your postings!!
cheers

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Beautiful picture Gary. Galaxies really need wide star field like you've got to show them off well.

Thanks for that Geoff..I didn`t really frame it anyway but it looks nice like that..image is about 60% of original so it really looks like a floating island.with lots of tiny fuzzies everywhere on the full frame..cheers.

Originally Posted by DJDD

is it possible to get such a shot using an ED80 + camera or DSI?

would it simply be a matter of exposure times + stacking?

i apologise in advance if these are stupid questions.

EDITED: forgot to say- awesome photo. galaxies look great, especially when they are oriented this way.

cheers,
DJDD

hi DJ..thanks for the comments...
I can`t see why you couldn`t get the same amount of detail with a ED80 and DSI, you will only get a small field of view but should be more than the toucam..cheers Gary

Thanks again everyone for the comments...
Cs Gary

[rogerg (Roger)]

Nice shot gary, good soft clours, nice FOV...

[Ric]

Top stuff Gary, fantastic detail right into the core.

Very nice indeed