LRGB is fastest!

[ollypenrice]

Hehheh, just being provocative! However, with guest Kris Delcourte we spent a mere 4.5 hours on the Leo Triplet in the relatively slow F7 TEC 140 Triplet Apo and Atik 11000 mono with Baader filters. This is not posted as a giant long distance effort, just a 4.5 hour quickie, but I hope it will challenge the idea that LRGB in mono cameras is slow. It isn't, it's fast. Sorry about the crop and some rough edges in a quick process.

Full size (but bear in mind horrible JPEG lesses. The TIFF is cleaner.)

http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Les-Granges/i-JHqCSs7/0/O/Leo%20Triplet%20TEC140%20Les%20Granges%204.5%20Hrs.jpg

Olly

[jimbo747]

Fantastic. I'm sure I can see several galaxies in that shot!

[ollypenrice]

Fantastic. I'm sure I can see several galaxies in that shot!

I certainly hope you can see three...

Yes, lots of fuzzies which a head banging exposure should pull out. Thee are some quasars near the Hamburger, too, I think.

Olly

[JamesF]

Lovely capture of the "tail" of NGC 3628.  An awful lot of images of these galaxies don't show it.

James

[laser_jock99]

4.5 hours!

I 'bagged em' in just 300 seconds with only on shot.....

.....addmittedly not as well.

[ollypenrice]

4.5 hours!

I 'bagged em' in just 300 seconds with only on shot.....

.....addmittedly not as well.

Ah, but you have to go for the tail or it doesn't count! That's a good thirty seconds' worth though. No doubt about that.

Olly

[SteveA]

I never even realised there was a tail...I don't think I ever seen it in an image before. So I guess that's another gauntlet laid down!

[bluedandelion]

The tidal tail looks nice. Hey, but you're going in for 400 hours aren't you Olly?

Seriously, this has the makings of a fine project. All the best.

Ajay

[D4N]

Really nice to see the amount of detail you can pull out without spending half the year on an image

What's the breakdown of the LRGB subs?

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[SnakeyJ]

Wonderful star colour and depth Olly. A great quickie