NGC-7331 Wide Field & Friends

[qcdougn]

With cloudy, summer skies I resolved to trying a re-edit of NGC-7331 taken in August 2006. This is a small target for a DSLR. But, it holds a lot of details for the right person skills and equipment. This is a composite of approx. 75- 30 sec. subs. I could have continued to play with the processing. But, wanted to leave it not looking so over-cooked. Below 7331 is also NGC-7335, 7336 and 7337. Also somewhere in here is Stephen's Quintet...

Images were taken with the Canon XT and LX-90 @ f6.3.

Doug

[Astroman]

Nice shot! 'Fraid you juuust missed Stephen's Quintet, though. The two stars of similar brightness to the lower right are the markers. The grouping is just off the frame.

[barkis]

Well you may have missed the Quintet Steve, but what I do see is a real nice deep space image with an air of reality about it.

Your main subject is framed by plenty of nice stars and some other faint galaxies.

Very nice indeed.

Ron.

[qcdougn]

Awwww, I got close to the quintet...I wasn't sure where it was. Thanks for giving me the two-star markers.

Ron, you gave me the kindest and most appreciated comment about my image that I could hope for. Thank you.

Doug

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I'll second what Ron said. Its a very nice image of your target, well taken and well processed. The quintet can wait until next time.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[MikeD]

Missed this one.

Great result, Nice and tight with great colour and detail.

First class image.

[CELESCOPE]

Thats a great image Doug , top marks mate , and nice to see you back imaging afater a long break, well done ,now lets keep them coming ,

yes been on hols mate thats why i have been silent hehehe

Rog

[centroid]

One very nice image.

Well done!!

Dave

[MartinB]

Lovely image Doug, dusty details showing up in the galaxy and very fine stars

[mpeniak]

Amazing image mate.Well done!

Martin

[steppenwolf]

Lovely image with plenty of detail - nice to see a widefield like this putting the chosen object into perspective

[blinky]

Thats a lovely image. It really gives a sense of scale and makes you think about what you are seeing. Cracking image m8