A few rarely imaged galaxies

[Mark72]

Hi,

I thought I share a few recently finished images. These targets are not seen often anyway.

The first one is NGC 1042; another elliptical galaxy is in FOV:

http://www.astrobin.com/68929/

The next one is NGC 4395 - it can easily require 100 hours with out much difference to be discerned. One of the lowest surface brightness.

http://www.astrobin.com/68998/

NGC 1530 is a rather easy one very high in the sky

http://www.astrobin.com/69232/ 

NGC 2985 is hardly ever imaged, very faint spirals can be made out here:

http://www.astrobin.com/69562/

Finally a small galaxy cluster for good measure, press to full res  - there are quite a few of them around this bright star

http://www.astrobin.com/69565/

Thanks for looking!

Nice holidays!

Mark

[StuartJPP]

Very good selection of obscure galaxies...great work.

[Mr Spock]

Really good collection of some difficult targets. Nice work.

[baggywrinkle]

Very nice, thanks for showing us.

[mdstuart]

I enjoyed your post. Out of all of those I have only seen NGC 2985 visually!

[Jannis]

Very nice collection there. Well done capturing these fain ones!

I love these fainter targets. Just too bad i neither have teh equipment og weather to capture any of them.

On a side note, the main shape and core of the NGC1530 lookd very similar to NGC 3718 wich i captured a good while ago: http://stargazerslounge.com/gallery/image/19545-ngc-3718-5h30m/

[Martin-Devon]

They're crackers Mark, lovely set of images here - I especially like NGC 4395.

Martin

[Dave_D]

Hi,

NGC 1530 is a rather easy one very high in the sky

http://www.astrobin.com/69232/

Thanks for looking!

Nice holidays!

Mark

Great stuff i like trying for the less well travelled objects too...

This is my first attempt at NGC1530. Less than 30 minutes of lights (unguided) but i'll be getting (a lot) more to see if i can bring out the spiral arms better when conditions allow.

[Mark72]

Thanks guys!

This is good work for 30 minutes Dave,

Jannis,

NGC 3718 is much prettier I think.,

Mark