Ngc 300

[rat156]

Hi All,

Even from light polluted Melbourne LRGB imaging is, just, possible.

NGC 300 from suburban Werribee about 7 hours total integration time, the four last night (all Luminance) were affected by poor seeing, but included anyway.

The background is really black as a side effect of LP removal.

Larger version here

Share and Enjoy

Cheers
Stuart

[desler]

Impressive Stuart, considering the light pollution.

Well worth the effort!

Darren

[Andre27 (Andre)]

Great image ,I have a few hours done with the Canon 1100D on this target, nowhere close to the quality of your image well done Stuart.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

That's a keeper Stuart. Love it!

Cheers

Steve

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Great image! This is a difficult object.

[rat156]

Originally Posted by desler

Impressive Stuart, considering the light pollution.

Well worth the effort!

Darren

Thanks Darren.

Have the council rolled out the LED streetlights in your area yet? They replaced the one out the front of my place a while ago. I wrote to them to complain, they are really bright. On a dark night walking from my house to the obs I used to have to clear a path (or put my damn stuff away, as SWMBO phrases it) so I didn't trip over stuff. No problems now the bloody streetlight illuminates the way. An engineer is coming over to measure the amount of light spill to see if it's outside the AS.

Cheers
Stuart

[gregbradley]

Very nice NGC300 Stuart.

Greg.

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

One of my favourite galaxies and a really nice picture mate!
Thanks for sharing.
Graz.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Originally Posted by rat156

Thanks Darren.

Have the council rolled out the LED streetlights in your area yet? They replaced the one out the front of my place a while ago. I wrote to them to complain, they are really bright. On a dark night walking from my house to the obs I used to have to clear a path (or put my damn stuff away, as SWMBO phrases it) so I didn't trip over stuff. No problems now the bloody streetlight illuminates the way. An engineer is coming over to measure the amount of light spill to see if it's outside the AS.

Cheers
Stuart

interested to hear the outcome of the light spill reading ...
Fantastic image as well. one of my favourites too

cheers

Rusty

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Clean, sharp,high contrast, excellent colour, overall excellent processing for an urban RGB shot. I like the black background, makes it pop.

[desler]

No Stuart, haven't had the pleasure of the new street lights yet, The update to the local community centre with its high intensity car park lighting to my immediate north-east has really got me beat though!

You'd swear on some nights, Jupiter 2 had just landed!

Ah well!

Daz

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Wonderful NGC 300 Stuart!

Really shows your skills, so much detail from a the light polluted area.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Ross G]

Great looking galaxy photo Stuart.

Ross.