Two galaxies

[PaulSthcoast (Paul)]

Thought I might dip my toes into a few galaxies.

NGC 4976 and NGC 4945.

Located in dusty Centaurus, NGC 4976 was discovered
with a five inch refractor by comet hunter
Jack Bennet in 1835.

NGC 4945, discovered by James Dunlop
In 1826.

NGC 4945 is believed to be similar to
our Milky Way, but side on.

46 x 180 seconds guided and dithered
6 inch Ritchey Cretien @f5.2
ZWO 183mn Pro
Skywatcher Azeq6-GT
ASI Air live stacking
Post prossesing in Snapseed

Thank you for looking.


Paul.

[Marko of Oz (Mark)]

Nice. Good to see someone imaging with an RC6. I'm waiting for mine to arrive.
I recall holidaying at Bawley Point near Ulladulla many moons ago. There'd be some nice dark skies around there.

cheers

Mark

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Nice image, Paul. You have also captured the unrelated galaxy NGC4945A. It is almost completely obscured by the mag 8 star in the lower central part of your image.

[Startrek (Martin)]

Paul,
Your imaging has really progressed leaps and bounds this year
A fine effort imaging a Galaxy under moon glare
Well done !!
Due to this region having an unusually dense Star field , I think some minor Star reduction in post processing would make the main Galaxy and background galaxies even pop out more for you
Whilst your happy and getting results with Snapseed , I think the quality of your acquisition data deserves a bonafide Stacking ( DSS or similar ) and Astro processing tool like Startools or PI now
Keep it going !!
Cheers
Martin