NGC 55

[Sam]

This is NGC 55, an irregular galaxy about 7 million light years away in Sculptor. It's 34 X 300sec exposures from a canon 1000D, 250px [not a 300px as i incorrectly originally posted] on an EQ6. Processed in DSS ad PixInsight. It seems to have come out ok. I was a bit dubious of how this would turn out as the first few subs didn't have much.

[Mark72]

Well done, Sam!

We can rarely see them imaged in this constellation. I reckon there should be lot more there.

Mark

[Gina]

Very nice

[Dipper]

Ohh, lovely galaxy. Don't think I've seen it before.

[SteveA]

Very nice...

Yep that's one I've never seen before.

[Sam]

Cheers guys. There's another galaxy near to Sculptor and this one which I wouldn't mind having a look at, but i'll have to wait until after the moon.

[Earl]

Very impressed how do you guide your 300p as its a huge beastie

[Sam]

Hi Earl, whoops it's been so long since I've used the scope I forgot its a 250px! Yes a 300 would be rather huge and probably too much for my setup.

[Bloom]

Wow! Superb!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely image. I had hoped to see this one from a holiday location in France, but no such luck. Brilliant object

[Shibby]

Awesome image, very impressive result!

[andyo]

Thats come out very nice great image also not seen this before

[Tinker1947]

Very nice image.......

[southernman]

Another excellent capture!!!

[skyquest1028]

Very nice! Do you use a comma corrector?

[skyquest1028]

oops I meant coma corrector.

[Sam]

Yes I use a coma corrector, unfortunately it doesn't help with poor guiding.

[swag72]

Lovely galaxy image, now if you could just add a star colour layer, that would make it utterly beautiful.

[ollypenrice]

Excellent delicate image. More proof that DSLRs thrive on fast f ratios, as well. Lovely light processing without the 'Pixinsight look' which sometimes asserts itself on the subject.

Olly

[Sam]

Excellent delicate image. More proof that DSLRs thrive on fast f ratios, as well. Lovely light processing without the 'Pixinsight look' which sometimes asserts itself on the subject.

Olly

Olly I think that comes from over enthusiastic use of the HDR took, which I hardly ever use.

[sulaco]

That's an amazing image, really fine detail, is camera modded?

[Sam]

That's an amazing image, really fine detail, is camera modded?

Yeah I took the filter out.