Barnard's Galaxy

[prokyon]

Hi folks!

 -14° declination, not first choice for an central european astrophotographer. But I have never done a dwarf galaxy and so I had to take the chance to capture NGC6822 from my balcony. 15'x14' is large enough for the 80/480 APO. There is a lot of HII stuff in, so I took Ha too.

80/480 APO, MoravianG2-8300FW, 7x600s L,  6x600s for every channel in RGB and 9x900s Ha. Of course more time especially for luminance would be good, but the weather........

full field:


66% crop:


100% crop:

Halpha:


despite the short exposure time the inverted image shows the galactic cirrus:




Regards

Werner

[ChrisLX200]

Very nice   Do I see a couple of small planetary rings in the Ha shot or are those artifacts?

ChrisH

[prokyon]

Chris, you see right. These Ha nebulas look like rings.