Grus Galaxy Trio

[Tamtarn]

Grus Galaxy Trio - NGC 7582,7590,7599

We were pleasantly surprised with the detail in the galaxies at 1485 fl so we look forward to trying at full focal length 2350 now that we have our flexure sorted out.

Details

Canon 40D unmodded
Celestron c9.25 with 6.3 FR

A total of 2hrs exposure - 12x10min ISO800

Higher res here -- http://www.pbase.com/rangeviewobserv...25127/original

[multiweb (Marc)]

Lovely rendition. I really like the colors and the details in the galaxies. You can also see another couple of faint fuzzies in the background. Nice one!

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Great shot Barb & David. How did you sort out the flexure?

[jase (Jason)]

Lovely work Barb and David. I personally found this trio difficult to extract details on. I suspect your data could be further stretched to reveal the faint arms of NGC7582. If you stretch the data reviewing this target, the others galaxies will closely follow suit as its relatively brighter. Keen to see how you'll get on at a longer focal length. I suspect you'll find it hit and miss based on the conditions. Good stuff. Well done.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Not bad at all, you guys are getting good at this

Some nice colours coming through there

Mike

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Lovely rendition. I really like the colors and the details in the galaxies. You can also see another couple of faint fuzzies in the background. Nice one!

Thanks for your comments Marc, these are the colours that the camera captured so we are happy with that.

[astroron (Ron)]

Nicely done Barb and Dave, My favourite Southern Trio

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Great shot Barb & David. How did you sort out the flexure?

Peter we now have the EQ6 mounted on a good solid pier and have also replaced the eq6 puck / head plate and vixen dovetail bar with a new StarStuff saddle plate head unit and losmandy style 100mm wide dovetail plate with custom made radius blocks.

The Starstuff equipment is very solid and well made.

Photos can be seen on our gallery pages.

http://www.pbase.com/rangeviewobservatory/equipment


David

[Alchemy (Clive)]

its been a day for presentation of good images, nice clean background and plenty of color rendition within the galaxys, plus the stars as well, some solid work there.

The 9.25 has a good reputation long focal length work so i look forward to seeing you give it a go, (as jase suggested) you will find the seeing critical at such long lengths though, still i feel you will rise to the challenge regardless.

cheers clive.

[Dennis]

A beautiful image of this marvelous field Barb and Dave; you’re really working your gear and systems so well now – great stuff!

Cheers

Dennis

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by astroron

Nicely done Barb and Dave, My favourite Southern Trio

Thanks Ron

We're glad we imaged one of your favourites and you liked it.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work, great detail in the galaxies and colour is vibrant. Only just some ever so slight egging in the stars. This is the maddening part of flexure I hate. Just finding what the real problem is just a matter of trial and error.

[Robh (Rob)]

Barb and David,

Fantastic image!
The closest three of the Grus Quartet. The other being NGC 7552 about a half degree away. Not as well known as the Leo Triplet but your lovely photograph will help promote this southern wonder.

Regards, Rob

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Again, lovely work from both of you.
Thanks.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Really nice shots....good composition ans framing. Lots of detail in the galaxies.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very Nice Guys, A really nice capture with loads of detail and great colour. I have no luck getting detail in small galaxies up here but you have done very well with this. Look forward to seeing the full FL version.
Well done.

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Wonderful image and can't wait for the longer FL.

Frank

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by jase

Lovely work Barb and David. I personally found this trio difficult to extract details on. I suspect your data could be further stretched to reveal the faint arms of NGC7582. If you stretch the data reviewing this target, the others galaxies will closely follow suit as its relatively brighter. Keen to see how you'll get on at a longer focal length. I suspect you'll find it hit and miss based on the conditions. Good stuff. Well done.

Jase we will certainly wait for very good conditions before trying full FL. We're not sure what exposure time we will be able to shoot until we do a few test runs. We will have to wait and see how our set up handles it.
We look forward to trying anyway

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Not bad at all, you guys are getting good at this
Some nice colours coming through there
Mike

Thanks Mike we will keep on trying to improve

Originally Posted by Alchemy

its been a day for presentation of good images, nice clean background and plenty of color rendition within the galaxys, plus the stars as well, some solid work there.
The 9.25 has a good reputation long focal length work so i look forward to seeing you give it a go, (as jase suggested) you will find the seeing critical at such long lengths though, still i feel you will rise to the challenge regardless.
cheers clive.

Thanks for the positive comments Clive

As mentioned above we will give full FL a try in the best seeing conditions and see how the setup handles things

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice work, great detail in the galaxies and colour is vibrant. Only just some ever so slight egging in the stars. This is the maddening part of flexure I hate. Just finding what the real problem is just a matter of trial and error.

Maybe we worded our sentence wrongly on the subject of flexure.

Perhaps we should have said now that we have improved our flexure rather than "now that we have our flexure problems sorted out"

Like you said Paul it's hard to pinpoint exactly what to do next to get flexure sorted out completely

Originally Posted by Dennis

A beautiful image of this marvelous field Barb and Dave; you’re really working your gear and systems so well now – great stuff!
Cheers
Dennis

Thanks for the comments Dennis. We are very happy with our setup now. We have improved as much as we can on the gear we have without going to any extreme expenses and we're happy with our image results so far

[Tamtarn]

Originally Posted by Robh

Barb and David,

Fantastic image!
The closest three of the Grus Quartet. The other being NGC 7552 about a half degree away. Not as well known as the Leo Triplet but your lovely photograph will help promote this southern wonder.
Regards, Rob

Thanks for the encouraging words Rob. Unfortunately the composition including 7552 wasn't so pleasing so we settled on centering just the three

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Again, lovely work from both of you.
Thanks.

Thanks again Jeanette

Originally Posted by renormalised

Really nice shots....good composition ans framing. Lots of detail in the galaxies.

Thanks Carl

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very Nice Guys, A really nice capture with loads of detail and great colour. I have no luck getting detail in small galaxies up here but you have done very well with this. Look forward to seeing the full FL version.
Well done.

Hopefully we will get around to a full FL soon Doug

Originally Posted by telecasterguru

Wonderful image and can't wait for the longer FL.
Frank

Boy we better get a perfect night soon to have a go at this full FL