NGC5846 with NGC5850

[Petergoodhew]

Two contrasting galaxies in the Virgo constellation.

10h 45m total integration
RGB each 20x300s
Luminance 23x900s

Captured on the TMB in Spain

 

[Craney]

Very nice.   

Always like to see this type of presentation.

There should be a special sub-section of DSO imaging folder entitled  " Contrasting  Galaxies within the same field of View " .

[carastro]

Am amazingly clear barred spiral.  What is the TMB?

Carole 

[ampleamp]

That's very good Pete. Good to see it on a real screen; under imaged and done well ?

[Petergoodhew]

4 minutes ago, carastro said:

Am amazingly clear barred spiral.  What is the TMB?

Carole 

Thanks Carole. Sorry, the TMB is my lazy abbreviation for my scope, an APM TMB 152 F8 LZOS Triplet refractor.

[Petergoodhew]

5 minutes ago, ampleamp said:

That's very good Pete. Good to see it on a real screen; under imaged and done well ?

Well thanks Alistair. If you hadn't suggested it I would never have gone for it - but very glad that I did now.

[HunterHarling]

Great image! How do you get your background so smooth?! I struggle to get good noise reduction. Do you do noise reduction in Pixinsight?

[Petergoodhew]

13 hours ago, HunterHarling said:

Great image! How do you get your background so smooth?! I struggle to get good noise reduction. Do you do noise reduction in Pixinsight?

I did no noise reduction. I used all of the RGB data to create a synthetic luminance which I combined with the real luminance for the background.  So there's 11 hours of data for the background - and that canceled out most of the noise.

Processing was done in Photoshop.

[Rodd]

Very nice!

Rodd