NGC7331 and Stephan's Quintet.

[Charon]

Amazing image Olly.

[Beyond_Vision]

You are on a roll Olly another cracking image to add the top shelf.

Regards

Kevin

[DugDog]

Olly, the details are fantastic! I had a question, what software is this graph from?

I'm not familiar with this software. It looks like your tracking was perfect.

Thanks!

[ollypenrice]

Olly, the details are fantastic! I had a question, what software is this graph from?

I'm not familiar with this software. It looks like your tracking was perfect.

Thanks!

The graph is from AstroArt 4.0 with the central circle representing one pixel, the second two, etc. The horizontal graphs for RA and Dec are, likewise, a pixel up and a pixel down. The guide scope has a focal length of 400mm and the pixel size is 8.2uM x 8.4uM.

Before the flip RA was slightly better but Dec slightly worse, though still below the imaging scope pixel scale. I feel the mount still has too much Dec backlash though we reduced it with a simple shim. Thanks to Maurice Toet and Pieter Vandevelde for helping look into this.

Olly

[fwm891]

Olly - can you just post an 'average image' sometime just to let us know your human after all!

Bril as ever - mumble, mumble...

[banner001]

very nice, i count 12 galaxies in the picture...pretty impressive!

[MartinB]

A great combination, nicely framed and processing spot on of course.

Delighted to see the EM200 is finally up and working as it should.

[evansg]

Superb capture and stunning image

Nice colors too!

[RobH]

Beautiful....another masterwork Olly

Cheers

Rob

[MikeWilson]

So you see a galaxy and it looks nice. Ok, then you see the little barred spiral fellow at the bottom and it looks really impressive. Then your eyes 'get in' and slowly more galaxies appear, three then five then ten...

The whole image is full of them!

All beautifully captured and processed. Well done, Olly!

[jsigone]

outstanding image, lots of faint lil one everywhere in this FOV

[NickH]

Glad the Tak is sorted, was talking to Nik Syzmanek about that at the weekend, thought it was still problematic, so that's a relief..

:-)

[cosmicdonkey]

Wow i have just been staring at this picture in amazment. I cant believe how many galaxies there are. awsome!!!

[deepspacehunter]

That is a beautiful picture...very well done...thx for posting it ....

[Tim]

Thats a nice one Olly, nice to see the colour retained in the stars and galaxies too.

[Doug]

Hi Olly

Just seen this fantastic image ,I count 16 galaxys, my eyes are not as good as they used to be but that image call for a WOW factor

Thanks for this

Doug

Essex UK

[todd8137]

nice

[sheri_barri]

That must contain the most distinguishable galaxy types by an amateur that I have seen. Incredible image Olly!!

[mdstuart]

Its amazing. I just love 7331 but I struggle to see any of the other little blighters in my dob. I might use your photo as a guide another night!

I have a new background on my PC!

Mark

[mdstuart]

Thats NGC 7343 that cute one!

Mark

[mdstuart]

It might just be visible on a dark night with a 10 inch scope..mag 13..

Mark

[ollypenrice]

The Quintet is clearly visible to folks with good eyes in our half metre Newt. I can see it with my old age eyes because I know what to look for. Some people struggle, some don't. You never can tell.

Edouard Stephan discovered it in Marseilles, 100 Km to our south. A nice historical touch...

Olly

[daz]

MUST pay a visit!!!!

[fatwoul]

...Otherwise that ickle barred spiral at the bottom will just be sat on the edge, it's nicer with some room around it.

I hadn't even noticed that one! There are just too many.

I think that's where the wonder in the image lies. Most images on here are of something. This image has a vast number of objects, and doesn't really have a subject. The "something" in this image is sheer, awesome scale. I guess that's why Olly says this image will never be an eye-grabber, but that probably has as much to do with Olly's modesty as anything else.

[mdstuart]

OK I can find 21 galaxies as marked....