First go at the Outer Limits Galaxy (NGC891)

[Skipper Billy]

First go at the Outer Limits Galaxy (NGC 891) from last night. HEQ5, SW ED80, Atik 460EX, Bader LRGB Filters, Atik EFW2 - guided with ST80 and Lodestar, processed in PixInsight. Seeing pretty poor - high wispy cloud. 24 x 300 sec Lum binned 1x1, 20 each of 100 sec RGB binned 2x2. Heavily cropped (its a tiny wee thing) and processed in a hurry (blacks clipped) - will revisit it when I have more time!!! It was a long night last night!! Lots of other galaxies hiding in the background !!

First time I have had opportunity to get two sets of data in one night !!!

 

[RayD]

Very nice Sir.

[Stu1976j]

Magnificent image could sit and look at for hours 

[Ouroboros]

Lovely image that!   That's what a galaxy should look like. .   The colour balance of the stars is good. Looks like you have the guiding spot on too if you've cropped the image a lot.   

 

[MarsG76]

awesome detail.

[Yamez]

Fantastic image, the detail on the dust lane is superb!

[James]

Nice image  There's a fair few other galaxies in there too... even a mini-'891 to the left

James

[triton1]

Cracking image!

[gorann]

I agree that it is lovely with great detail even if cropped, but I am also confused about the star spikes using a SW ED80. Maybe you mixed up your scopes in the dark?

[RayD]

2 minutes ago, gorann said:

I agree that it is lovely with great detail even if cropped, but I am also confused about the star spikes using a SW ED80. Maybe you mixed up your scopes in the dark?

I thought exactly the same as I have an 80ED and don't get diffraction spikes, but assumed they came about in processing.  Glad it's not just me that thought that.

[Rodd]

4 hours ago, gorann said:

I agree that it is lovely with great detail even if cropped, but I am also confused about the star spikes using a SW ED80. Maybe you mixed up your scopes in the dark?

That could be microlensing of the camera sensor--I know the SBIG STT-8300M uses microlensing and I get tiny spikes similar to this with a refractor (a bit smaller I will grant--then again this image has been cropped, so they probably look enlarged.

[r3i]

On 11/7/2016 at 19:43, James said:

Nice image  There's a fair few other galaxies in there too... even a mini-'891 to the left

James

That's NGC898 I think.  Great image, I also like seeing the smaller fuzzies in an image like this - there's quite a lot in there.

Just out of curiosity - has the image been flipped somehow, as NGC898 would normally be to the lower left of NGC891? Not that it really matters.

[Skipper Billy]

I added the diffraction spikes in Photoshop then decided they looked silly and removed them - then promptly uploaded the wrong image - this is the correct 'version' - I havent knowingly flipped the image. It was definitely taken with my ED80 - its the only scope I have !! (Apart from a Heritage 130 which might struggle a wee bit for imaging !!!) 

 

[David Smith]

Fantastic image. I opened th full scale image and spent ages panning around picking up tiny smudges here and there.

[orion58]

Nicely done.

[Barry-Wilson]

Well done and better with the spikes removed IMHO.  Gently processed too and the better for it.

Keep them coming!