Barnard's Galaxy

[Sam]

First, an apology for posting this very ordinary image that has more tracking and processing errors than you can poke a stick at. Here's my excuse, busy work + busy home = busy life. Unfortunately it's astronomy that suffers. So I have to make the most of the opportunities. This is still early days with my new camera even though I've had it for nearly a year! I've seen NGC6822 on CDC and sky safari for ages and always wondered what it'd be like to image. Well it's hard to find and needs a whole lot more data than I collected, but you get the idea. My MPCC needs a few more mil to get the spacing right and remove the rest of the coma - a little internet shopping later I think!

So this image is, as you guessed , NGC6822 or Barnard's Galaxy. It's about 1.6 million light years away and has some interesting little nebula around it. This image was taken with a QSI 680wsg through a Skywatcher 250px on a EQ6 mount driven by the usual software and processed with PixInsight and DSS and a bit of Nebulosity to help out. It's only 4 images totalling 1 hour, 15mins each of LRGB.

Enjoy, and just imagine what it might look like with more effort!

[kalasinman]

Congrats! Your images aren't as bad as mine (yet), but keep trying!-Jack

[Sam]

Haha, I'm sure your images are fantastic!

[Grotemobile]

I think a lot of us would love to

get a image like that.Very good

Steve

[Sam]

Thanks Steve