NGC 1316 Fornax Galaxy and Friends

[Startrek (Martin)]

Captured NGC 1316 Fornax A Galaxy in Sydney on Monday night
It’s a spiral Galaxy at a brightness of magnitude 9.4.Adjacent to NGC 1316 is NGC 1317 Galaxy at magnitude 11.There are also a couple of other tiny faint fuzzies
Sky: Bortle 8 ( plus neighbours birthday party going on with flood lights and fluorescent lights blasting my yard until 11pm )
Seeing conditions: average to poor ( patchy high cloud )
Telescope : 6” f6 Bintel newt
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6- R
Imaging camera: ZWOASI2600MC set at Ascom Highest Dynamic Range ( Gain 0 offset 50 ) cooled to -12C
No filters ( just a Baader coma corrector)
Guide scope: Orion 60mm guide scope with helical focuser
Guide Camera: ZWOASI120MM-S
Guiding Software: PHD2 ( 0.90 to 1.00 arc sec error)
Goto and Navigation: EQMOD and Stellarium
Frame Focus and Capture: APT
80 x 90 sec dithered guided subs
No darks
No flats
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.6 OSC linear data set

Original frame version and cropped version

Comments welcome!

Thanks

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

A fine effort despite the neighbours trying to sabotage your evening. Love all the faint fuzzies in the field. You're building quite a catalogue of objects imaged and you seem to have the gear performing well.

[PKay (Peter)]

Nice one M

I am working on NGC1097 (only a few degrees away), maybe try it next?

[Startrek (Martin)]

Thanks Jeff and Peter
I’m just stoked being able to image dim galaxies from my bortle 8 home in Sydney with a relatively small aperture, short focal length scope
I’ve been watching a guy in Tokyo ( Cuiv the lazy geek ) who images everything under Bortle 9 City skies including dim galaxies and the trick is with galaxies not to use a filter , capture during the new moon and plenty of short subs ( 30 sec to 90 sec ) more the better.
This new 2600MC camera is producing some great data to process with and it always amazes me what it can do in all types of conditions, both in Sydney and down the south coast at my semi dark site
Thanks again !!