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Another image from an epic session the other night. I was surprised to find I could get all three galaxies in the same frame given my rather long FL and high FR. Some acquisition details are given on the astrobin page.

Looks like the 'moving' object is a faint galaxy...

From an epic session the other night, this is 4 x 10min exposures of RG and B binned at 2x2. Hopefully get some L data at 1x1 at some point. Something on the move in the bottom right!

Last night was a great session. I started imaging at 9pm and ran continuously until 3am. Started collecting colour data on the Leo Trio, then switched to comet Atlas and then acquired mono data on M94. Not a glitch all night, seeing was good, not great, but it was pitch dark out there and completely silent apart from one idiot crashing around in his Obsy! This is 60x1min subs on Comet Atlas which apparently is disintegrating but not sure this has captured any evidence of that. I also stacked all 60 frames aligned to the comet with the resulting image below, again not sure there is any apparent fragmentation visible...

Last night acquired 4x5min subs of RGB on this little beasty of a galaxy! These were uncalibrated - I couldn't find a guide star nearby so the galaxy was right at the edge of the frame and I forgot to get flats anyway! I applied various stages of clean up to the RGB data before combining it with the Lum data I got the other night. This really is a tricky little object to process. Kinda weird looking the outer regions look as though I've had a fit with the PS brush tool but I don't go near that thing!

Thanks Ragnar. Hopefully I will be able to get some colour data at some point.

Thanks Sean. Just loaded the Abell catalog into Stellarium and checked out that 38 hour image on the web. Amazing. I'm lucky if I get a 3 or 4 hours on the same object.

I know what you mean, looks like it could do with a bit more stretching but then why bother as it looks fantastic!

Fantastic images - appropriate objects for the conditions, good call. Wish I had known about them when I gave up imaging as the Moon was reeking havoc. I will certainly check these two out.

On opening PI for the first time in ages I discovered I had some unprocessed color data of M94 and figured I would try and get some L subs last night. Well I thought M94 was the Black Eye galaxy so started imaging only later to realise M94 is The Croc Eye galaxy! So I ended up with 2 hours worth of 10 min subs of the Black Eye galaxy, M64! DOH! Oh well I haven't imaged this before so I let the sequence complete. This was a tough one to process. It's angular size is smaller than I imagined and all but the black strip in the heart of the galaxy is a very milky, almost undefined oval around it. I've managed to pull out some detail of what looks like some spiral structure but overall much tougher than I imagined it would be. Looking across the web I can't find any staggering amateur images of it so I guess it is a toughy. I did manage to get a few subs on M94 which I've yet to process but I feel 4 frames won't be enough to do it justice. Anyways here's M64.

And some more frames from last night. It may have faded slightly, this is 20, 3 minute frames as cf with 2 minutes in the previous post...

Details of acquisition under image....

I visited the obsy for the first time in a year the other day and my first test image was this....