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19-10-2012, 08:53 PM
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Ngc 986
This is a strangely neglected galaxy in Fornax. It's a struggle to find any amateur images of it at all and it's actually quite large and bright. Perhaps everyone just automatically goes to the Fornax cluster.
Cheers
Steve
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/n...STL6303_RC.htm
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19-10-2012, 09:06 PM
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That's a nice galaxy, Steve-and well imaged! 
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19-10-2012, 09:29 PM
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Yes, very nice Steve!
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19-10-2012, 09:31 PM
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A beautiful galaxy photo Steve.
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19-10-2012, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Ross G
A beautiful galaxy photo Steve.
Ross.
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Yes, very nice Steve!
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That's a nice galaxy, Steve-and well imaged! |
Thanks guys. I appreciate your comments as always.
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19-10-2012, 11:35 PM
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Stunning, wonderful example of a galaxy  Nice star colour retained and pleasing colour balance in general.
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20-10-2012, 01:20 AM
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Very nice image Steve and I like the composition and colour as well.
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20-10-2012, 07:36 AM
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Very good Steve. I like it.
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20-10-2012, 08:07 AM
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Very good Steve. I like it.
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Thanks Greg. Maybe I'll keep binning RGB 2x2. Does seem to turn out pretty well and takes less time.
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Very nice image Steve and I like the composition and colour as well.
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Thanks Alan
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Originally Posted by rogerg
Stunning, wonderful example of a galaxy Nice star colour retained and pleasing colour balance in general. |
Thanks Roger
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20-10-2012, 08:50 AM
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Well if I didn't know better I would have thought that was NGC 7552 in Grus, lower right in THIS image. Remarkable similarity, same size, same magnitude, they could be twins
Yes, a great looking galaxy
Mike
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20-10-2012, 09:01 AM
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Very pretty structure. You get a real sense of the rotation motion on that one. Looks like a spinning firecracker.
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20-10-2012, 10:10 AM
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What a lovely looking shot of this galaxy. I will add that to my list. I am intending to also do NGC 1097 which is another barred spiral in that group.
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20-10-2012, 04:10 PM
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What a lovely looking shot of this galaxy. I will add that to my list. I am intending to also do NGC 1097 which is another barred spiral in that group.
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Thanks Paul. It's very similar to NGC 1097
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Very pretty structure. You get a real sense of the rotation motion on that one. Looks like a spinning firecracker. |
Thanks Marc
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Well if I didn't know better I would have thought that was NGC 7552 in Grus, lower right in THIS image. Remarkable similarity, same size, same magnitude, they could be twins
Yes, a great looking galaxy
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Thanks Mike. Yes you are right - very similar to NGC 7552. NGC 1097 looks much the same too.
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20-10-2012, 05:52 PM
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Hi Steve,
You really do justice to these galaxies with your setup.
Cheers,
Justin.
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20-10-2012, 07:13 PM
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Hi Steve,
You really do justice to these galaxies with your setup.
Cheers,
Justin.
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Thanks Justin. Yes F9 is pretty good for galaxies.
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