A big flying saucer! NGC 4565

[RobH]

Greetings from Weymouth

I first imaged this wonderful galaxy with my DSI pro, in 2007.

Had to have another go with the Atik camera

I've been banging away at the processing for the last week, still not really happy (are we ever? ) but it's time to move on to something else as I've got to the stage where I can't see the wood for the trees anymore so here it is.

This is 4 hrs 45 minutes of data from a run of 5 hrs 48 minutes taken on the 1st, 2nd and 7th of April 2007.

All exposures are 3 minutes, RG & B binned 2x2.

L-55

R-13

G-14

B-13

14 inch at F6.3, Atik 16HR, PHD guiding.

1st image is full size, second reduced for web display.

Cheers

Rob

[saturn5]

One of my favourite galaxies.

As for words to describe it,how about Absolutely Perfect.

[markcol]

That's superb, Rob!

Mark

[CELESCOPE]

Thats an amazing image Rob , i love the way you get these close ups, guiding is deadly accurate , detail excellent , well done a truely wonderful image

Rog

[Aza]

Absolutely stunning!

Great work

[Martin 2]

Very nice mate , did you notice the faint fussies in the distance

Martin

[centroid]

And what a superb 'flying saucer' it is too Rob.

A great piece of work Rob, well done!!

Dave

[Trevor]

Wow Rob truly stunning 8)

[legion48]

Absolutely first class. :shock:

[SteelRat]

A bit nice that is Rob 8) Great detail - good stuff.

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[lunator]

Rob

Excellent pic

the detail in the Dust lanes is superb

Cheers

ian

[Sam]

Wow :shock: :shock: :shock: huge wow!!! what a stunning image! An excellent result - well done!

[radioactive]

Flippin Fantastic Rob

That is definitely a keeper.You must let the Astro-mags have it mate, its a cert for publication is this one. :hello1: :hello1: :hello1:

[Roy Batty]

Rob - a simply stunning image, the detail in the dust lanes is awesome.

cheers

RB

[Casus belli]

Brilliant picture. I saw this one from my back garden with the dob on saturday night, but to see it in such exquisite detail...well I think I'll be having another look at it.

Im in agreement with Radioactive about you posting it to various astro mags A stonewall cert for publication.

[MikeD]

Fantastic result :shock: :shock: , the detail in the dust rising from the main dust band in front of the core is awesome. :hello1: :hello1:

Mike.

[anthony]

Saw this one yesterday and was so taken by it that I forgot to post.

Superb image. Fantastic image scale, smooth background and lovely detail/colour in the exciting area

Anthony

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Stunning Rob, you're getting some real crackers with your kit. You must have it properly trained.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[trevboyd]

That's unbelievably great, Rob - congrats!

Trev

[Beyond_Vision]

Superb capture Rob expertly framed and great detail and colour.

Regards

Kevin

[Ant]

Fantastic image...

Nice one Rob.

Ant

[Helen]

WOW

Helen

[MartinB]

Wow Rob, that's premier league stuff. Awesome image, doesn't seem to be anything lacking on the processing Rob so looks like you stopped when the going was good!

[Tim]

:hello1: :hello1: :hello1: :hello1:

They dont get any better.

TJ

[barkis]

Pro. Ob. quality image their Rob. You have to stop looking to improve on perfection before you start to get discouraged and pack it all in. We would all be the losers then mate.

I would like to have seen the DSI effort you speak of, just to make the comparison.

A brilliant production here without any doubt.

Ron.