M84, M86 and The Eyes

[Barry-Wilson]

Collecting the last few RGB subs over recent days has been frought with April showers (all unforecast of course ): on two occasions the cloudwatcher switched to 'unsafe' and the observatory roof closed after only collecting a single 300s sub. At least the AAG cloudwatcher had a good workout ;-).

The colours are subtle so rather than persevere with an unpromising weather forecast for the foreseeable week or so, I chose to finish this image and move on with 5.5 hours total integration.

Details:

• WOFLT132 at F5.6
• QSI683wsg, Astrodon filters
• Avalaon Linear Fast Reverse
• 18 x 600s Lum, 10 x 300s each RGB - all bin 1
• Captured SGP and processed PI

Thanks for looking.

 

[Starlight 1]

Wow there is a lot going on in this image very nice Barry

[gonzostar]

That is amazing

[bish]

Fantastic picture. I do like images where it takes you  a while to count up all the galaxies you can see. Thanks for posting

[Special K]

Simply stunning!  Such a magical portion of sky.  Thanks for sharing that.

[jetstream]

Yes this is fantastic!

Your image shows a galaxy that I've been trying to identify for a year...lol! Well actually a few of them but I'll narrow it down, thanks for this great image.

[Barry-Wilson]

Thank you Starlight 1, gonzostar, Bish, Kevin and Gerry.

12 minutes ago, jetstream said:

Yes this is fantastic!

Your image shows a galaxy that I've been trying to identify for a year...lol! Well actually a few of them but I'll narrow it down, thanks for this great image.

It is a wonderful area of sky littered with galaxies and faint fuzzies, if you haven't seen Uranium235's image you should take a look at his post.

[laudropb]

Very nice image.

[toxic]

oooh thats very nice Barry

[andyo]

very nice capture

[Ruud]

An image of rare quality!

It is incredibly beautiful. Thanks!

[Barry-Wilson]

Cheers laudropb, Chris, andyo and Ruud.

[StuartJPP]

Great stuff Barry!

[opticalpath]

A real beauty, Barry!  So much detail in there and a velvety smooth background. Nice.

Adrian

 

[swag72]

Great image Barry

[Barry-Wilson]

Thanks Stuart, Adrian and Sara.

19 hours ago, opticalpath said:

A real beauty, Barry!  So much detail in there and a velvety smooth background. Nice.

Adrian

The combination of PI's MureDenoise, TGV and some light-touch MMT really help smooth the background.  If I'm being critical (which is what we need to do to improve) I have to repeat my Luminance Flats as I'm getting some over-correction in the corners, especailly noticeable in the top left and bottom right of this image.

I have been targeting 21,000 ± 500 ADUs for my QSI683 rather than the 35,700 quoted on the QSI site, maybe this is a mistake, but this value was effective with my 383L+.

QSI683 users: any views?