extremelly deep image of hickson 44

[sergeC14]

hello everyone,

I spent 36x100 sec subs (6 hours) imaging hickson 44 with the C14 EdgeHD with the fullframe Atik11000-CM OSC camera. I am quite pleased with the result as it is very deep:

on the full sized image, one can see literally 1000's of faint galaxies in the background... I am not sure of limit magnitude, but I suspect it to be very high.

full size here:http://www.sergepetiot.com/wp-content/gallery/various/hickson44.jpg

Comments welcomed

Rgds

Serge

[sulaco]

Now that's a brilliant bit of work, you must be very happy.

[MikeD]

Very nice job on a great little group.

Mike.

[inkpen]

Spectacular!

[morimarty]

A beautiful image Serge,I would be very interested to know the limiting magnitude!

[Quatermass]

Fantastic job wow there is so much to see in that picture, brilliant stuff.

[Atlas]

Simply fantastic! Alot of pride in that shot! Well done.

[ncjunk]

You´ve got some slight errors on your tracking with those star shapes but I assume that this is on the C14 at 2800mm?

Very nice image and the large version is fantastic! I´ll have another look after work and count the fuzzies :-D

[sergeC14]

ncjunk,

2800 mm? I wish!!!

it's 3980 mm (F/D 11) so yes, the slightest P.E on the wormscrew, not being instantaniously corrected (guider using 4 sec exposures) will cause some very slight guiding error.

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Serge

[Ainsley]

Amazing - just how far away are those galaxies then ?

[eddy]

That's the kind of image you could sit and analyse all day long

Superb!

[paraletic mirror]

absoutly amazing

[kenmyers]

Brilliant image

[sergeC14]

Ainsley,

Hickson 44 is "only" 60 millions light years away. It's practically next door...

Thank you all for your very kind comments. I also did Hickson 57 but it is less impressive by nature. May be I'll post it as well.

Rgds

Serge

[ncjunk]

ncjunk,

2800 mm? I wish!!!

it's 3980 mm (F/D 11) so yes, the slightest P.E on the wormscrew, not being instantaniously corrected (guider using 4 sec exposures) will cause some very slight guiding error.

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Serge

3980???! Forget that for a game of soldiers

Thats the only polite way of putting it i can think of.

In which case great image!

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[sergeC14]

Ncjunk,

speaking of "game of soldiers",

well, we frenchmen, once you get past the bravado, we still do aim to shoot!

Rgds

Serge

[Chris]

Serge I think thats a fantastic image especially as it was taken at such a long focal length! Big Congrats on that one:)

[RobH]

Brilliant result which shows that long FL imaging can be done very well with a lot of care and effort....well worth it Serge

Rob

[Baffa]

It's an impressive amount of galaxies in this picture Great stuff!

[mdstuart]

The hickson 44 may only be 60 ish million light years away but I suspect some of those background galaxies are a billion light years away..

Mark

[Gina]

Absolutely fantastic!!

[sergeC14]

Really, thank you all for your very kind comments!

I primarily do images I am pleased with, but it is always satisfying when other astronomers like them too...

Thx Again

Serge