Cocoon galaxy "lucky imaging"

[Dragon_Astro]

Tried a few targets last night with the "lucky" method of imaging with a CMOS camera (AA IX224C) and SW 150P.
This is the first one I've stacked so far. Stars are clipped and white, gain possibly a bit too high?
60 x 10s lights
30 x matching darks

 

 

[Dragon_Astro]

This looks different uploaded to what it looks like on my laptop.

I think I'll have another go at processing it, the inner parts of the galaxy are a bit blown :/

[Dragon_Astro]

Hmm I've had another go at this, though I'm sure more data would help with this....

[StargeezerTim]

That's the first time I've heard of this galaxy. Incredible what you can get with 10 sec exposures...

[Dragon_Astro]

Yeah it's not one of the regular ones you'll see......it's from Arps Irregular interacting galaxy catalogue