Galaxy NGC3521 18.15 hours

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Hot stuff, remarkable amount of detail.

[phobos (John)]

beautiful image!

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Absolutely wonderful!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

That's a fantastic image Greg!!! Well done!!!!

18 hours with a 17" will always do the trick!!

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus. It certainly can collect a lot of photons in that time.
I just have to give it a stern talking to every now and then when the black baffle paint flakes off and I get new mysterious reflection arcs in my images@!!

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Hot stuff, remarkable amount of detail.

Thanks. I was happy to get so much detail. There were a number of nights with much better than average seeing.

Originally Posted by phobos

beautiful image!

Thank you!

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

Absolutely wonderful!

Thanks for that.

Greg.

[RobF (Rob)]

Very impressive work Greg. Some fascinating arm structure visible in there as well as a plethora of faint background fuzzies. Just reward for hard yards.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by RobF

Very impressive work Greg. Some fascinating arm structure visible in there as well as a plethora of faint background fuzzies. Just reward for hard yards.

Thanks Rob.

I want to do the best I can do on each object so after a few years at it I will have a catalogue of the best shots I can achieve. I think that takes staying on one object for a while.

Greg.

[atalas]

Galaxy in a bubble....awesome Greg!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by atalas

Galaxy in a bubble....awesome Greg!

Thanks Louie.

I like these unusual galaxies.

Greg.

[alpal]

I missed this one - must have been busy on Monday.

What a great picture.
I think it's better than this Gendler one taken with a 32" RC:
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC3521JM.html

It's certainly a much wider field & the colours really stand out.

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by alpal

I missed this one - must have been busy on Monday.

What a great picture.
I think it's better than this Gendler one taken with a 32" RC:
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC3521JM.html

It's certainly a much wider field & the colours really stand out.

Thanks for the nice compliment.

I always liked this galaxy. I was also very pleased that I caught a period of excellent seeing when I got most of this data.

Greg.

[beren]

Galaxy images are my favorite and this one is a beauty Greg, congrats indeed on this fine image and the effort involved.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Greg - this is a stunning capture!

Cheers Petra d.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

What a cracker. A bit less processing and say 250hrs would do the trick though.

[Forgey (Paula)]

Thats beautiful Greg, well done!

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by beren

Galaxy images are my favorite and this one is a beauty Greg, congrats indeed on this fine image and the effort involved.

Thanks Beren. I like galaxy images as well.

Originally Posted by spacezebra

Greg - this is a stunning capture!

Cheers Petra d.

Thanks Petra!

Originally Posted by Bassnut

What a cracker. A bit less processing and say 250hrs would do the trick though.

hehe. I did at least 50 hours on this one and 2 hard disk failures and the sudden appearance of arc reflections in the images I never had before caused a loss of about 30 hours of images! Imagine 250 hours on an object. That would be cool.

Originally Posted by Forgey

Thats beautiful Greg, well done!

Thanks for that. It is one of the prettier southern galaxies and it reminds me a bit of M63 the Sunflower Galaxy which I would love to image.

Greg.