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This is a reworked image of the Gamma Cygni nebula.
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed with PixInsight.
-captured: 25.09.16
26x600" ISO200
4.33h
A HaSHO palette of NGC1760. Image subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
I have had this data set for a while but I have never been happy with the results, now I am fairly happy.
Processed in PIxInsight 1.8 and Affinity Photo
The California Nebula Captured recently in Narrowband using the new QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
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In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image.
Captured over 5 nights in January and February 2021 for a total acquisition time of 11.6 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture January 16, 20, 26, 31 and February 6th 2021
HA 210 min 21 x 600 sec
OIII 280 min 28 x 600 sec
SII 210 min 21 x 600 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing and Starnet in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Equipment
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro
TeleVue NP101is
Losmandy G11
Capture
R: 20 x 90s
G: 20 x 90s
B: 20 x 90s
Total Integration: 1.5 hours
Processing
PixInsight
Photoshop
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Chroma Ha 8nm + Astrodon RGB
Astro Physics 1200
Ha: 24x1800s bin 1x1
RGB: 25x300s bin 1x1
Total exposure: 18h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight, Astro Pixel Processor
The Leo Triplet is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com
Lum 83 x 600s
Red 49 x 180s
Green 53 x 180s
Blue 49 x 180s
21 Hours 23 mins in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -20C
Image Scale: 2.08
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik Lum,Red,Green,Blue
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager
Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
Another collaboration by Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock captured at Grand Mesa Observatory 11/25/2021 using their System 4a telescope now available for subscription grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
The image captures a steadily brightening Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard as it passes by the Whale Galaxy (NGC4631) and the Hockey Stick Galaxy (NGC 4556 and 4657 in the early morning hours this past Thursday 11/25/2021.
You might remember this particular celestial backdrop from another image (apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210513.html) Tom and I captured of Comet C/2020 R4 (ATLAS) earlier this year back in early May of 2021. It's pretty neat that we have another comet traveling through this portion of our sky, can't say I've ever experienced such a repeat :)
Technical info:
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory, Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: 11/25/2021
Exposures: 116 x 60 second
Camera System 4a: QHY367 Pro C One shot Color CMOS
Gain: 2850 Offset: 76
Optics System 4a: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
1 stack of 110 30s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens wide open, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 100 darks, 350 biases. Processed in PixInsight (full description at www astrobin com 6v85ug )
This is a two panel shot of the area the middle being the Horse Head. The right side took three night the left side took two night. the difference was the tree next to the mount got pruned so the shots went to 4 am.
This was my first trial of using the rotation marks and getting the cameras square to the shot all 5 night had the very same error 3.3 degrees within the 5 degree limit I had set. I watched each night to see if I had to change rotation. The two shots fitted together perfectly making this method very workable.
This was the fav nebula of mine since I was a kid seeing the close up of the Horse on the red background. My only regret my father did not get to see this shot.
QHY183C -10c 82 shots Each Panel 10 min each over 5 nights and camera rotated.
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Optolong L-eNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.
IC5146
Vespera Pro: 1548x10sec CLS and 693x10sec no filter = 6h13min of integration time. Processed with PixInsight.
Captured on September 22nd at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing. A myriad of different types of objects are visible in this wide field image covering over 4 x 2.4 degrees of sky. From Lynde’s Catalogues of Bright and Dark Nebulae LDN 1089, LDN 1100, LDN 1094, LBN 444, LBN 447. Emission Nebula Sh2-130, face-on intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 6949 and 17 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.
This new setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 4a
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Technical Info:
Total Integration time 3.75 hours
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: September 22nd 2020
Color RGGB 225 min, 45 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS
Gain 0, Offset 76
Read Mode: High Gain Mode
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
Taken using T12 on iTelescope.net (Takahashi FQS-ED 106mm / SBIG STL-11000M). 45 minutes of data (3 Ha, 3 Sii, 3 Oii). Images stacked and processed using PixInsight
A wide-field 2 panel mosaic, of the cosmic dust clouds that cross the rich field of stars of Corona Australis (Latin for the Southern Crown).
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor Telescope.
QHY163M Camera Sensor cooled to -30°C.
Technical Card:
Integration Time: 18 hours total (9 hours per panel).
L = 9 hours total (Binning 1x1).
R = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).
G = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).
B = 3 hours total (Binning 2x2).
Calibration frames:
Bias, Darks & Flats.
Image Acquisition:
Guiding in Open PHD.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Plate Solving in Platesolve 2 via SGP Framing & Mosaic Wizzard.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
star separation with StarNet++ Pi Plug-in,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center (RA, Dec): 285.970, -37.530
Center (RA, hms): 19h 03m 52.739s
Center (Dec, dms): -37° 31' 46.701"
Size: 3.63 x 2.86 deg.
Radius: 2.312 deg.
Pixel scale: 8.17 arcsec/pixel.
Orientation: Up is 162.5 degrees E of N.
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An LRGB image of Gum 15. It is part of the Gum catalog, an astronomical catalog of 84 emission nebulae in the southern sky. It was made by the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum.
Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
Subs stacked and processed in PixInsight with the finishing touches in Affinity Photo.
58 180second subs
Processed in Pixinsight
William Optic GT81 with a William Optics 0.8 field flatner
ASIAIR Pro
ASI533mc Pro
Skywatcher EQ-6 AZ
I reprocessed this data that I shot in November 2022. I used PixInsight and was able to pull out a lot more detail.
The Triangulum Galaxy lies ~2.7 million light years away from Earth and is part of our local group of galaxies. It lies in the constellation Triangulum, from where it gets its name. Charles Messier cataloged it first in 1764. He published his Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters in 1771 and listed it as object number 33, hence the name M33.
Equipment:
SkyWatcher EQ6-R
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S at f/5.6
Sony a7rIII (unmodified)
ZWO 30mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3
28 x 301" for 2 hours, 26 min, and 56 sec exposure time.
3 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bias frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
PixInsight
Photoshop
Lightroom
I polar aligned my mount using SharpCap Pro. My Sony a7rIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S were mounted on an ADM vixen rail and secured to the SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount. The guide scope/camera was attached to the camera's hot shoe. I used PHD2 to autogude during the imaging session. DeepSkyStacker was used to combine all frames, and the outputted TIFF file was brought into PixInsight using: STF, Cropping, Dynamic Background Extraction, BlurXTerminator, plate solving, color correction, NoiseXTerminator and then the DSO was separated from the stars, and both files processed and stretched separately and then recombined using PixelMath. That file was brought into Lightroom for Metadata and EXIF tags, light post-processing, and cropping to the final image.
This is the end result of starting End Of April Finished to 12/7/2022. what started out as a look at the area I have been taking photos of for years. To get this completed this is the third iteration getting the over lap correct so it finished first was 12% , and second was 23% but in the end I could see the panels walking away from each other as I shot, so settled for 45%. So the true start was early in April getting this part to get correct so it finished. Added to this I went from an easy Rotation Error of 5 degrees to a very small 1.5 degree. Even last night at 11:53pm at flip the camera had to be rotated 1.8 degrees after flip to finish out the night.
I thought the best way to tell you Milky Way core is 53 shots per night X 22 panels = 1166 shot or x 10min exposure time.. = 11660 minutes of exposure to get the whole thing or divide by 60min gives you hours. = 194 hours. not to get you confused...at all.
The result of two sequences and 22 panels (11 panels long)each panel a night shooting, The Tiff is 22653 x 8024 1.01 GB, Jpeg is 176Mb the shot here is under 25mb. The end was I thought my first sequence finished where I wanted to but I was way out by 6 more panels to get below the Eagle Nebula.
I thought Bonsai taught me patience but this has been a very long set of shots trying to get clear nights to get each panel between clouds and rain.
The march across the milky way as I took it stated with far right to left as the Milky Way rose in the sky:-
Fighting Dragons, Prawn , Cats Paw, Lobster, Dark horse ( bottom half only), Snake, Lagoon and Trifid, Horse Shoe, Swan and Eagle.
Enjoy the milky way like I have never seen before.
ZWOASI071MC -10 53 shots each of the 22 nights
10min rotated to error of 1.5 degrees.
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, PTGui, Ps, Lr.
This is a second go at this target but rains are killing any more nights worth of shots.
In the very center of the nebula there looks to be a dog sitting on it hind legs begging these are called the "Pillars of Creation" sadly this is a close as I can go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
QHY183C -10c 87shot 5 min
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.
The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of dust containing enough gas and dust to make about 10,000 stars like our Sun. In the centre of the nebula is a cluster of hot, bright young stars. These are warming up the surrounding gas and dust, making it appear bluer. The small, bright white regions are cocoons of dust in which huge stars are currently being born. These “protostars”, each one of which will probably become a star up to ten times more massive than the Sun, are heating up the surrounding gas and dust and making it clow brighter. The smaller, redder dots on the left side and near the centre of the image also contain protostars, but these are smaller, and will go on to form stars much like our Sun. Just as the centre of the nebula contains bright young stars, in a few tens or hundreds of millions of years these stars will have died, but the protostars will have evolved into fully-fledged stars in their own right. In this way, the star formation will move outwards through the nebula.
Messier 51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
Image acquisition: Mauro Santoro
Image processing: Diego Pisano
Acquired from Terravecchia (Cs) Italy, from June, 20 until July, 04
Total exposure 32 hours
Camera: QHY 294C Pro
Filter: Optolong L pro
Scope: Sky-Watcher QUATTRO 250P
Mount: Sky-Watcher Az Eq6
Editing: Pixinsight
Field of view is 15.7 x 10.5 degrees. At least 9 degrees of tail is visible in this image. 21x4s subs, iso 2500, f/5.6 settings were used and post-processed in PixInsight. Brightest star at left edge is 3.6 magnitude.
Wind and city lights limited exposure time. I plan to observing away from the city during the next few days for better contrast.
A HaSHO palette of IC59. Image subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
Another data set I have had for a while but I have never been happy with the results, now I am fairly happy.
Processed in PIxInsight 1.8 and Affinity Photo
The dragons lair in ARA. The dragon egg NGC6164 is easy to see. Captured at Telescopelive in Australia, and heavily processed by me in PixInsight. About 4000 light years away.
Date: July 26, 2023
D750 IR modified, ISO1600, f4.0, SS120sec, 300mm
Light 30, Bias 40, Flat 40
PixInsight, Photoshop
NGC3521 LRGB
Planewave 17” CDK
Camera: FLI ML16803
Filter: Chroma L,R,G,B
Focuser: IRF90
Focal Length: 2939mm
Focal Ratio: f/6.8
Mount: 10 Micron GM3000
Location: Deep Sky West, Chile
11,75h of LRGB data, combination in PixInsight done:
L: 62 x 300sec
R: 23 x 300sec
G: 30 x 300sec
B: 26 x 300sec
BlurXTerminator used.
ccd: Moravian G3-16200 with EFW + OAG
filters: Optolong LRGB and Astrodon 5-nm Ha/O3
telescope: TEC 140 f/7
mount: 10Micron GM2000 QCI
guider: Lodestar X2
exposure: L 15x20min + RGB 7x12min + Ha 13x30min (all 1x1)
location: Les Granges, 900 m (Hautes Alpes, France)
software: TheSkyX Pro, CCD Commander, Pixinsight, PS CS5
date: 16 Jun - 16 Jul 2019
Quattro 200P + ASI294MM Pro
LRGB, PixInsight, Photoshop
The near space of Alnitak that is one of the three stars in Orion's Belt.
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 37x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight,
A single image of 60 seconds taken with a Canon EOS 5DmkII and 50mm Sigma f/1.4 lens at F/2.8 and iso 1600. Taken from a Bortle 1 sky in Northern Chile July29th 2022. Processed in Pixinsight.
NGC 4565 is an edge on spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. First recorded by William Herschel in 1785, it is sometimes known as the Needle Galaxy because of its thin shape Also. because of the shape and where it is located some refer to it as Berenice's Hair Clip. It is approximately 40 million light years from earth and like our own Milky Way galaxy it has a diameter of about 100 thousand light years.
If you look closely, there are actually many other galaxies in this shot. Just to name a few, NGC 4562 is in the upper right corner and IC 3543 and IC 3546 are in the upper left. All told, there are more than two dozen galaxies in this area.
This is only twenty-one 90 second shots stacked and processed with PixInsight and PhotoShop.
An LRGB image of 4B228.
Data subs courtesy of Telescope Live.
Processed in PixInsight and Affinity Photo.
Cropped image showing the comet's tail at least 1.5 degrees long in this 2.5x1.5 degree fov. My full frame reveals at least a 5 degree tail though much fainter.
Click to enlarge for better view of the coma structure.
August 14th - Edinburgh Bortle 7/8 zone
Celestron RASA 8"
ZWO 183mc pro
Optolong L-Pro filter
ZWO air pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro
60 X 60s lights; with flats, darks and bias
Gain 122 at -10C
processed Pixinsight
In this image taken on the early morning of Dec. 3, 2021, at Grand Mesa Observatory, Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is seen moving past Globular Cluster M3 in our night sky when a meteor streaked across this scene, lighting up the image and creating one of the most spectacular shots we have had the privilege of working with. It was captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson using a QHY367 Pro C one shot color CMOS and a Takahashi E180 Astrograph, GMO’s System 4a telescope grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
After processing this image, I looked up what the color of the meteor means for its makeup and found that yellow/orange meteors most likely are made up of sulfur and iron. The strands of vapor moving off the meteor tail are so mesmerizing. What a treat it was to capture this image! Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will continue to brighten in our night sky this month but will become difficult to image or observe as it approaches the sun in our sky. It flips around and becomes an evening comet later this month, which will hopefully make it easier for more people to observe. Fingers crossed it brightens past expectations. Currently it’s a binocular-observable comet, but it may become naked eye visible in the next couple nights if it’s not already.
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Technical Info:
Captured and processed by Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Date/Time of Capture: 4:31 AM MT, December 3rd
Single 120 second combined with 40% mix for noise reduction from a 90 x 120 second stack
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop
Captured on June 5th 2025
Askar SQA55, FL264mm, f4.8, ASI Air Plust, EQ6-R, NB filter Ha, O3, Total EXP. time: About 4 hours
PixInsight, Photoshop
Van den Bergh (vdB) 149 and 150 are blue reflection nebulae in the constellation Cepheus.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com
Lum 45x600Secs
Red 51x300Secs
Green 40x600Secs
Blue 30x300Secs
17 hours 35 mins in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C
Image Scale: 2.08
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik LRGB
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager
Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8
4 hour image stack. Modified Canon 6D and Redcat on IEQ 30 mount. Imaged from a site near Tierra Amarilla, Chile, elevation 5000 feet, July 2022.Image stack processed in Pixinsight
A narrowband (HOO Palette) image of an interesting section in the Vela Supernova Remnant (also known as Vela XYZ; Gum 16; SNR G263.9-03.3; 1E 0840.0-4430; RE J083854-430902).
The Vela Supernova Remnant is in the Southern constellation Vela. Its source (a Type II Supernova) exploded approximately 11,000–12,300 years ago, at a distance of about 800 light-years away. The association of the Vela Supernova Remnant with the Vela Pulsar, is direct observational evidence of Supernovae form Neutron stars. The Vela Supernova Remnant includes NGC 2736, and it also overlaps with the Puppis Supernova Remnant. Both the Puppis and Vela Remnants are among the largest and brightest features in the X-ray sky.
Elements are made at different stages in a star's life-cycle, and spread through the Universe in Supernova explosions. “The Nitrogen in our DNA, the Calcium in our teeth, the Iron in our blood, the Carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos.
Technical Info:
Lights/Subs total integration time: 15 hours.
42 x 600 sec. 7nm Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha).
48 x 600 sec. 6.5nm Doubly Ionized Oxygen (OIII).
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor.
Sensor cooled to -20°C on my QHY163M.
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks and Flats.
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight, Starnet++ and Straton was used for star separation, and final processing was done in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 127.762, -43.909
Center RA, hms: 08h 31m 02.897s
Center Dec, dms: -43° 54' 30.752"
Size: 1.62 x 1.32 deg
Radius: 1.046 deg
Pixel scale: 3.65 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 87.3 degrees E of N
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NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is an H II region emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7 magnitude young central star, SAO 20575. The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow. (Celestron EdgeHD800, ZWO ASI2600MM, ASIAIR, EAF, EFW, Skywatcher HEQ5, Antlia SHO 3nm, Pixinsight, Photoshop).
This images shows a fixed comet amount the surrounding stars. The comet's movement was slow enough to allow for minor star movement over a 15 minute period. Bright moonlight lightened the sky but not enough to washout any comet's structural detail.
Tech Specs: Fujifilm X-T5, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/5, iso 160 to 800, exp 57x20s, 5x30s. Post-processed in Pixinsight. Astrotrac tracking mount was used.
Messier 31 the Andromeda galaxy HaLRGB
Thought I’d give this one another whirl today, happy Friday. :)
Equipment used;
CGX mount
QHY9s CCD
AA 70 EDQ-R telescope
Baader filters
Capture details;
24 x 300 red
21 x 300 green
26 x 300 blue
48 x 300 ha
36 x 300 lum
31 x darks
100 bias (super bias pixinsight)
Software used;
SGP, phd2, pixinsight & Photoshop
Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"
Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803
Mount: Paramount-ME
Software: Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Luminance
Resolution: 3484x3422
Dates: March 13, 2017, April 24, 2017, May 20, 2017
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 16x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 12x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 19x1200" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 16x1200"
Integration: 21.0 hours
Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States
Back after being under the weather and then moving house (again!)
Here we have a look at NGC 4565 a giant spiral galaxy that is more luminous than M31 yet missed was missed by Messier in his catalog.
I was pleased to see what I would consider a super example of a central bulge, probably one of the best I have worked on in this edge on view. c40mly away and 100kly wide. I was also pleased with the clear blue colour in the outer arms indicating younger stars.
Hope you enjoy.