M66

[centroid]

Another 'grab between the cloud' session last night, but found enough gaps to secure enough subs on M66, to make a reasonable image.

12" LX200R + f/6.3 FR. 13x300 sec subs. Guided at f/15 (ED80 + x2 Barlow).

Dave

[steppenwolf]

You're getting rather good at these galaxies, Dave!

[MikeD]

Very, very nice colour and detail.

Mike.

[MartinB]

You were on form last night Dave! Another galaxy with loads of very clear detail. Very nice

[CELESCOPE]

Another nice one Dave , looks like you got the same clear slot as me then , so whats on for tonight,m65???

Rog

[centroid]

so whats on for tonight,m65???

Rog

I started out on M95 last night, but it looked quite boring actually, so I switched over to M66. I think I did M65 recently, hmm!, I'll have to check.

Dave

[RobH]

Great work Dave

Cheers

Rob

[Beyond_Vision]

Nice capture Dave with loads of detail. Hope you dont mind me asking what are the black artifacts being caused by?

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

Almost edge on to us this galaxy. It's a superb image Dave.

Glad your recent problems have been sorted, and we can look forward to more like this.

I can see a galaxy feast coming up.

Ron.

[centroid]

Hope you dont mind me asking what are the black artifacts being caused by?

Not at all Kevin. I hadn't noticed them, so thanks for pointing them out.

Had a look at the original full sized image, which was saved as a TIFF, and the artifacts weren't there.

So, it must have been something that I did, or occurred, when I resized and converted the image for 'posting'.

Reproduced another compressed jpeg from the original, and this time all was well. Have uploaded the new image.

Cheers

Dave

[saturn5]

Another beauty from my favourite area of the sky.

[anthony]

Top marks. A lovely image

Anthony