Triplet, tail and fuzzifest.

[ollypenrice]

After a very quick throwing together of one night's worth on an earlier post here's my best effort after four nights and about 12 hours. L subs were 15 minutes and RGB were 10. The rig was our TEC140 on Avalon Linear with Atik 11000 mono...

The first two nights were with guest Kris Delcourte.

Although the TEC has a focal length of only 980mm and the Atik 11000 has large 9 micron pixels (giving 1.89 arcsecs per pixel) I'm pleased with the galaxy core resolution. See a bigger version; http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Les-Granges/i-NNsK787/0/O/LEO%20TRIPLET%20TEC140%202015%20web.jpg

However, Per and I are planning to collaborate and see what the smaller pixels of his robotic QSI/TEC140 will bring to the table. This was ticking away behind us as we catured the present version.

I would LOVE to shoot M66 at 3 metres FL. I think it's the prettiest galaxy of them all.

Cheers,

Olly

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely image! Really superb detail

[Stargazer33]

WOW!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just moved this from observing to imaging

[astroman001]

That's a lovely image, nice detail and nice and sharp.

regards

Peter

[ollypenrice]

Just moved this from observing to imaging

 Sorry Michael, brain fade... Too many late nights!

Olly

[Zakalwe]

Stunning image, as always Olly.

[Gazabone]

That's nice, those galaxies just jump out of the photo, beautiful.

[Vega]

Incredible image. Not seen one of the triplet this deep. One day I may move over to the dark side that is LRGB imaging!

[Dark Horizon]

Excellent one Olly. You couldnt achive this fro Derbyshire

[Scott]

very nice indeed 

[ollypenrice]

Excellent one Olly. You couldnt achive this fro Derbyshire

No, but you can't get a nice piece of Hartington Stilton here! 

Olly

[Dark Horizon]

Neither can I now ive moved to North Wales...   lol  

[si@nite]

A superb image!

[Tinker1947]

That's really nice to look at.....

[peter shah]

I would expect nothing less from you Olly....wonderful image

[damnut]

Olly,

That is just breathtaking. Congratulations.

[Chris]

Another stonkingly good image there Olly.

[Tom OD]

Excellent Olly. Delicately detailed, and the lovely smooth background I really like.

Tom

[StuartJPP]

Super job Olly...I imaged this on Friday and can only just see a slight hint of the tail...

[paulobao]

Very nice and clean image Olly, congratulations .

I love the Tec140.

Paulo

[PhotoGav]

That's a cracker, Olly, as usual. Ooh, those stars... Tighter than a duck's @rse - I think that's the expression anyway!

My only criticism would be that you have presented the image upside down. If you rotate it through 180°, it so much more resembles a smiley!!

[sloz1664]

Superb image Olly. Just tucking in to a nice piece of Long Clawson stilton as I type..     

Steve

[ollypenrice]

That's a cracker, Olly, as usual. Ooh, those stars... Tighter than a duck's @rse - I think that's the expression anyway!

My only criticism would be that you have presented the image upside down. If you rotate it through 180°, it so much more resembles a smiley!!

A drooling smiley!

Glad you like the stars. After a partial stretch of the global luminance I made a copy layer, pinned the background where it was and continued to stretch the bottom layer above the pins. I then erased the top layer just where it covered all the fuzzies. No rocket science, no masks, dead simple. (Like me!)

Olly

[ollypenrice]

Superb image Olly. Just tucking in to a nice piece of Long Clawson stilton as I type..     

Steve

Swine!!!