Thanks Doug I am surprised this galaxy is not more popular although it does look dim in short exposures. Also thanks to Allan, Geoff and leo for your comments. Mike a man and woman in an entangled kiss maybe we both need a cold shower.
Clear skies Ken.
Nice galaxy You've got a lot of good detail there. The noise is a bit distracting for me, especially where it brightnes along the right edge, but I shouldn't complain about noise as it's usually a problem in my pics
Thanks for the comments Doug and Roger the noise and artifacts can creep up when pushing the processing to show a lot of the faint detail. These images were taken on some of the hottest nights I can remember the QHY9 had the cooling system at max -22c, normally I run it at -31c.
Clear skies Ken.
Salva the mount is a home made fork made from plywood connected to a 11.5" r.a. worm wheel, the dec shafts are just 2" gal water pipe with flange fittings. The dec drive is a 40" ply wood disc with friction drive from a dob driver unit connected to a Argo Navis. I guide using a O.A.G. and loadstar the mount cost less than a couple of paramount counter weights.
Clear skies Ken.
Hi Fred, nothing fancy about the mount just a lot of work making it all work like it should. Active optics are on my wish list.
Hi Michael thanks for the kind words, been a bit quite from yourself and David guess been a bit busy.
Clear skies Ken.
You've got a lot of good detail there. The noise is a bit distracting for me, especially where it brightnes along the right edge, but I shouldn't complain about noise as it's usually a problem in my pics 
