NGC 4945 - Work in progress

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

The clouds cleared long enough to get a couple of hours of Luminance last night. I was going to get some more data tonight but guess what!! ...

Since I haven't been able to image since December (!) I thought I'd share this as a work in progress.

Small: http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/110479642/large
Large: http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/110479642/original

I had a few guiding problems with the AO-L but the result isn't too bad.

Cheers, Marcus

[gregbradley]

Very very nice Marcus.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Looks pretty good Marcus, youn have some nice extended halo showing.

Mike

[bluescope]

Coming along Marcus ... good detail in dust lanes .... RGB data next ?

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very very nice Marcus.

Greg.

Cheers, Greg.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Looks pretty good Marcus, youn have some nice extended halo showing.

Mike

Thanks Mike. It'll be interesting to see what more Lum can show.

Originally Posted by bluescope

Coming along Marcus ... good detail in dust lanes .... RGB data next ?

Thanks Steve. Yep - RGB on its way if the clouds & rain ever go away!

Cheers, Marcus

[RB (Andrew)]

Marcus, that looks magnificent, I can't wait to see what you will produce with the colour data on this wonderful object.

Cheers.

[Tilt (Michael)]

Excellent result, such fantastic detail.

Michael

[leon]

Looking good Marcus, seems to be coming together very nicely.

Leon

[spearo (Frank)]

wow this will come out amazing in color
frank

[Garyh]

Nice and deep Marcus! Well on your way to a cracker result!
Gary

[Peter Ward]

Very tidy indeed.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! Very cool. Loads of details in the dust lanes. Nice.

[pgc hunter]

stuuuuunning!!!! If you look closer you can see dozens, perhaps even hundreds of extremely tiny galaxies littering the field.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by RB

Marcus, that looks magnificent, I can't wait to see what you will produce with the colour data on this wonderful object.

Cheers.

Thanks Andrew. I hope to get some colour in the next few days - looking forward to capturing those beautiful yellow hues too.

Originally Posted by Tilt

Excellent result, such fantastic detail.

Michael

Thanks Michael. This is my first image using my new Robofocus unit so focus was pretty consistent & good over 8 subs. FWHM ranged between 1.8 and 2.1 arcsecs - not too bad!

Originally Posted by leon

Looking good Marcus, seems to be coming together very nicely.

Leon

Cheers Leon!

Originally Posted by spearo

wow this will come out amazing in color
frank

Thanks Frank - just got to make sure I get plenty of data so I don't mess things up with too much colour noise.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Nice and deep Marcus! Well on your way to a cracker result!
Gary

Thanks Gary - sure hope so!

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Very tidy indeed.

Thanks Peter!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! Very cool. Loads of details in the dust lanes. Nice.

Yeah, those dust clouds are cool. They seem to extend well into the halo in places too. Some more Luminance data will go down well if I can get some good seeing.

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

stuuuuunning!!!! If you look closer you can see dozens, perhaps even hundreds of extremely tiny galaxies littering the field.

Thanks mate. Yes, there are quite a few - not sure there are hundreds though (?) - some pretty faint stars in there no doubt.

Cheers, Marcus

[richardo (Rich)]

Hi Marcus,
great going with your nice set up.

I like the detail your rig has brought to this galaxy.
Plenty of interesting dusky swirls of turbulence going on. Right in your face.
Just the right fov and res, what this galaxy needs I feel to do it justice.

I've imaged it and passed it up quite a lot of times. Felt it never did anything for me.

But this is excellent.
Look forward to the colour.

All the best
Rich