Newbie on this forum....Black eye galaxy from Saturday morning

[RobH]

Hello and greetings to you all.

I've just joined this forum and I see names that are familiar from UKAI and plenty that aren't. Looks like a good forum.

I just noticed that I'm an atom!!!

Cool

I managed a long session out in the observatory from 5pm Friday until 6.30 Saturday morning...what a wonderful clear night......finally

Lots of data on several objects, here's the first. Original is a lot cleaner....I must put a website together

I finished with this one so only got 10 subs but hope to add a few more if I get the chance before work calls me away for a month.

10 x 6 minute subs

LX200GPS 14" @ F5 / Atik 16HRC

Guided by TAL 100 @ F10 / DSI PRO / PHD

Cheers

Rob

[jgs001]

Hi Rob, Welcome to SGL. That's a really good image.

[Grant]

Wow! Gorgeous image Rob, thanks for sharing

Welcome to SGL too!

[steppenwolf]

Welcome to the forum, Rob - some nice detail in the dust lanes of the galaxy. This is not an easy object but you have done well to get this amount of detail.

[Ant]

Welcome Rob,

Nice to have you on board!

Fantastic M64 you have there!

Ant

[barkis]

Welcome to SGL Rob.

That's as good an M64 as I have seen from an amateurs Observatory.

You used a reducer, can I ask you which one it was. Obviously 0.5, but which make?

Thanks.

Ron.

[cygnusx1]

Lovely image Rob, you really caught the "dark eye" obscuring dust cloud nicely too.

[Sam]

What an introduction! superb image and welcome to SGL.

[CELESCOPE]

Hi Ya Rob , nice to have a fellow Atik16hrc on board. lol i,m scope from UKAI if ya already dont know , pleased to have another imager on board, makes it a big challenge for me and Martin now ,the image section is growing fast , in case u dont Know Martin and myself run the Image of the week on here , so get those images a flowing .very nice image mate , did u use a filter on that , be interested to know .

Rog

[RobH]

Thanks for the kind words chaps

The focal reducer was an Antares 1 1/4", arrangement as in the following image.

Rog, I also used a Hutech IDAS LPS filter although the sky was so clear that night that I probably didn't need it....it was already in the imaging chain though and I didn't want to take it off and thus have to shoot another bunch of flats...lazy I guess

I only recently took delivery of the 16HRC and am quite stunned by what it's capable of.

I also have the 16HR for luminance and narrowband stuff and hope to add some more to this image, possibly some Ha after seeing the hubble core close-up.

[Beyond_Vision]

Welcome to SGL and a cracking shot for a first post. This is an unusual looking galaxy with an asymmetric looking core. Nice image scale and nicely framed.

Regards

Kevin

[centroid]

Very nice indeed Rob, and a great 'first image' to 'post' on SGL.

Yep, there are quite a few UKAI members on here too, but I spend most of my time here these days.

Dave

[AlexG]

Welcome to SGL, Rob.

1, 2, 3 - wow! Stunning images appearing on this forum.

AG

[zebra_afs]

amazing photo, if one day I get a photo as good as yours I will walk to the moon and back on sandals, lol

regards Zebra

[Ant]

This thread is THREE years old!

[rocketandroll]

I was going to say... I started getting seriously confused by Bob describing himself as a newbie :-)

This has to get some kind of thread-o-mancy award.

Nice pic tho :-)

Ben