Hamburger

[mark7331]

After a long "winter of discontent" (clouds) I've been spending some time working on guiding and various bits n' bobs. Last week, with some clear skies and the first good seeing I've had for months, I decided to have a crack at NGC3628 - The hamburger Galaxy in Leo. So I setup and took my subs. 5 min exposures of R(18),G(18) and B(7 - as NGC3628 went behind the house) on the 314L+ @ -10c.

This is a work in progress and the processing is in AstroArt/Photoshop but the big change is that I took flats. 30xR,G&B. As usual I used darks from my library.

My first process didn't use flats as I didn't really think they'd make much difference. The image and had awful gradients and terrible colour balance but I nearly feel off my seat when I saw the outcome outcome with flats. So flats rule!

Thanks for looking.

[dc509]

Very nice indeed! Must learn to do flats...

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[R Fisher]

Nice Image, edge on spirals contrast well with core.

Dont usually use flats myself but they certainly help with some configurations.