2.5hrs of NGC-4945 from Snake Valley

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

NGC-4945 From Snake Valley.

2.5hrs (10 x 60sec, 10 x 300sec, 8 x 600sec) Didn't quite get the 10, 600 second images in as cloud completely covered the sky.

Taken with a Canon 1100D (unmodded), 8" f/4 Newt.

Astrobin link : http://www.astrobin.com/full/81554/0/

[atalas]

A good effort Andrew.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

That surprised me! It has a real 3D effect. Nice photo.
Trevor

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Good work Andrew!

Although 4945 is quite bright it's a bugger of thing to get right.

Cheers,

Justin.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Nice going Andrew, your F4 is performing well

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well Andrew that's not too bad at all, great field huh?

Well done

Mike

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Originally Posted by atalas

A good effort Andrew.

Thanks I would have loved to have gone longer on this, but the cloud had other ideas.

Originally Posted by Regulus

That surprised me! It has a real 3D effect. Nice photo.
Trevor

Thanks Trevor, muchly appreciated.

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Good work Andrew!

Although 4945 is quite bright it's a bugger of thing to get right.

Cheers,

Justin.

I think I still have a bit of processing to do on this Galaxy, I really don't think I have got it right yet.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Nice going Andrew, your F4 is performing well

Thanks Bob, yep I am really happy with it, although collimating is a bit of a pain, so critical, the scope performs as it should. Should be even better after a few modifications I plan on doing to it.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well Andrew that's not too bad at all, great field huh?

Well done

Mike

Appreciate your comments Mike, thankyou. Yes this has to be my second favorite Galaxy, I would love to be able to process it better though, I think there is still a fair amount of data there, I haven't been able to bring out.

[desler]

Very good result Andrew! The 8 inch performed nicely.

Darren

[alpal]

Originally Posted by Astroman

Yes this has to be my second favorite Galaxy, I would love to be able to process it better though, I think there is still a fair amount of data there, I haven't been able to bring out.

Hi Andrew,
Yes it seems you have good data but the processing could be improved.
Processing is difficult - after many years of processing I still struggle
sometimes & end up posting 3 or more versions till I get it right.
Every picture is so unique with it's own challenges that you almost
have to learn how to process each new picture.
I recommend Louie's fantastic videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ5b6pFHBGe66vsuSaXb-0A

cheers
Allan

[Shiraz (Ray)]

good stuff Andrew - your system is working well.

[alpal]

Hi Andrew,
I hope you don't mind?
I had a play with your picture.
I reduced the brightness & size of the stars &
stretched the galaxies.
I also took colour away from the stars but added more to the galaxies &
raised the black point.
I then did an automatic gradient removal in Fitswork4.
Do you think this looks better?

cheers
Allan

see attached: