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[Shiraz (Ray)]

Hi

got another two good nights - the waning moon was up for some of the time, but there was very little haze, so the data was still usable, although not real deep. The seeing was pretty flash for part of it and the stacked image was well under 2 arcsec FWHM after mild deconvolution. Again used 2x2 for the colour and concentrated on getting more blue than previously.

This is quite an attractive galaxy with strings of star formation regions along the inner arms and a huge faint outer arm. It is apparently one of the Seyferts, with a strongly radiating accretion region around the central black hole.

http://www.astrobin.com/full/230064/0/?real=&mod=

Thanks for looking. Regards Ray

[Somnium (Aidan)]

Wow, Ray, that is stunning. well done

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Wow, what a great photo Ray! Sharp, great colours, round stars to the edges. Awesome work

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

A beautiful capture.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Lovely detail in the galaxy there Ray

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Somnium

Wow, Ray, that is stunning. well done

thanks very much Aidan - it is a very pretty galaxy.

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Wow, what a great photo Ray! Sharp, great colours, round stars to the edges. Awesome work

Thanks Slawomir - appreciate the comment.

Originally Posted by Placidus

A beautiful capture.

Thanks M&T.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Lovely detail in the galaxy there Ray

Hi Colin. Thank You.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Ray. Great colour and lovely detail. The back ground looks good this time.

[gregbradley]

Wow, that is a gorgeous image. Sensational Ray. The stars look very 3D as well and beautifully round and great colour. The background is very neutral.

Top stuff.

Greg.

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Another stunner there Ray! If I may ask, what are the exposure details per filter?

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice work Ray. Great colour and lovely detail. The back ground looks good this time.

thanks a lot Paul.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wow, that is a gorgeous image. Sensational Ray. The stars look very 3D as well and beautifully round and great colour. The background is very neutral.

Top stuff.

Greg.

thanks very much Greg and thank you for pointing out the issue with the last image - appreciated.

Originally Posted by rmuhlack

Another stunner there Ray! If I may ask, what are the exposure details per filter?

Hi Richard - thanks very much!. exposures were:
L 62 at 300s 1x1
R 44 at 180s 2x2
G 26 at 180s 2x2
B 30 at 300s 2x2

Regards Ray

[alpal]

Hi Ray,
fantastic picture & well worth all the time you put into it.

cheers
Allan

[Eden (Brett)]

Excellent work, Ray. Beautiful colour and detail, very impressive.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Ah well, i get on the ship to a beaut 1365 and get off to a beaut 1566.....a great week all round i say Razzor

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

super nice, loving all the background galaxies.

[topheart]

Awesome capture and processing again Ray. I really like the colour and good details.

Cheers,
Tim

[alistairsam]

That took my breath away Ray. So beautiful and perfect.

Cheers
Alistair

[Paul Haese]

I have been back a few times to view this image at full res now. I have compared it to other images online and it compares very well. This is outstanding work Ray. It has tight detail and not over sharpened at all. I have seen a few images of this with obvious over sharpening. Worth a few looks I reckon.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

This is really nice Ray, in every regard. And artistically I like the way your set-up colours the diffraction spikes.
Good number of galaxies in the background that have come up nicely too.
Well done

Trev

[RickS (Rick)]

Very classy, Ray! A great result.

Cheers,
Rick.

[RobF (Rob)]

Absolutely top notch. Both galaxy and background star/galaxy field are stunningly rendered.
And its just plain fun to explore the field too....