Ngc 1365

[LewisM]

Seeing it seems a lot of people have ignored NGC 1365 since the SN is starting to calm down, I thought it was high time it was done again.

By the time I was shooting it, it was getting low and menacingly towards the mercury vapour street lamps. I persisted as long as possible, and in the end, ended up with 43 minutes out of DSS. Need to add a LOT more, as I took this one almost TOO far, but you can see stuff starting to really pop. Some dust motes not removed by darks etc, so will work on it, and vibrance a little pushed.


I'll try tonight for another hour at least.

Larger: http://www.astrobin.com/full/31574/?mod=none

[David Fitz-Henr]

Not bad for only 43 minutes - more data should really help it pop out a bit more. It looks like it would also benefit from applying flats as you are stretching it near the limits.

[astroron (Ron)]

Supernova still shows in your image,
I was just able to see it last night in the 16" with a 3.5mm nagler
522xmag.
Cheers

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Not bad for only 43 minutes - more data should really help it pop out a bit more. It looks like it would also benefit from applying flats as you are stretching it near the limits.

David,

It has the full gammut - darks, flats, dark flats, and bias. Not enough it seems, and mayb not matching temp close enough. I ran out of time to do them last night, so use a set of each from similar temperature files. Yeah, I kow, but necessity and all that

The straight out of DSS looks good - just devoid of colour, and making the colour come out stretched it a little too much and it got noisy.

[cybereye (Mario)]

Lewis,

I love all the other galaxies in the image!

Cheers,
Mario

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very cool field. Great color saturation.

[LewisM]

A redux, after learning some new processing tricks.

Still need more data And less star elongation (I should have shortened the sub slightly with the FR)... guiding was not 100%.

Higher Res: http://www.astrobin.com/full/31784/?mod=none