Needle galaxy & friends

[Uranium235]

Last night was a bit of a late start, didnt clear up until gone 9pm so I had missed most of what I wanted to do (Jellyfish to test the 2" Ha) - so I was only able to grab about 45 min on that before it was just too low for my location.

So, time for a visit to an old favorite - the needle. The sky still wansnt quite right at a few of the subs picked up some cloud damage, but hopefully I got enough to make a decent fist of it (about 90min worth). Really could do with some colour for this, and the good news is ive just sold my old 1.25" NB filters - so Im faced with the pleasant quandry of either buying a 2" OIII - or 2" Red and Blue filters.... hmmmmm.

It probably needs a few of the subs replacing, but I just chucked the whole lot in the pot - after all its just a test.

Needle Galaxy:

15x450 (L) CCD CLS (1x1 bin)

130pds, Atik 383L+, NEQ6, Baader MPCC MkIII

Setpoint: -25

Calib: Bias and Flats

No cropping

Thanks for looking!

Rob

Fullsize here:

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[GuillermoBarrancos]

Nice one!  You really blasting off with this little 130PDS newt of yours!

[Alien 13]

Another great image from the mighty 130 PDS.

Alan

[wxsatuser]

Thats very good, nice detail in the Needle.

[Uranium235]

Thanks guys

Here is a crop of the Needle, a bit of noise in there - but thats be expected given that the odd bit of cloud was passing through. I might add more tonight, but its back to work tomorrow.... so we shall see.

[sologuitarist61]

Very nice image indeed!

[tich]

Lovely image, those 130PDS's are fab!!!

[C7tsj]

Very nice! Can I ask what the smaller galaxy to the top left is? Might not even be a galaxy, but what is that smudge?

Thanks.

[andyo]

Lovely shot Rob

[ChrisLX200]

Great shot. One of own favourites and also one of tonights targets should it remain clear.

ChrisH

[Uranium235]

Very nice! Can I ask what the smaller galaxy to the top left is? Might not even be a galaxy, but what is that smudge?

Thanks.

There seems to be a number of smudges in there that are not detailed in Stellarium, so I might have to get it solved by astrometry.net

[Epicycle]

Great image Rob!

[RogerTheDodger]

Wow, what a busy image that is...

[Uranium235]

Wow, thats awesome - thanks for the annotation. There is a lot more than I first thought!

It would be interesting to see how much the 130 hoovers up when I take a slice (or two) of the Virgo supercluster next month.

[kirkster501]

That's really quite something.  Well done!