NGC 7331

[bazza]

One hour's worth of 5 min Lum subs.

Will try to get the colour within the next week.

(NGC 7335 and 7337 can be seen to the right).

Thanks for looking.

Barry.

[FLO]

Looking good Barry

You have captured several of the other galaxies that our own single image barely registered!

[anthony]

Looking good from here.

Anthony

[johnh]

I do love this galaxy a mini m31, very rich background galaxies are 300 million lyrs away.

[LostNSpace]

A nice capture Barry in what seems to becoming a popular target at the moment

Mark

[CELESCOPE]

Darn good image Barry some serious detail in the Galaxy ,just one thing , the stars , any reason why they are not nice and round.

Rog

[bazza]

Darn good image Barry some serious detail in the Galaxy ,just one thing , the stars , any reason why they are not nice and round.

Rog

Rog,

In one word - Guiding!

I have struggled with guiding now for about 2 years and still haven't got it right.

For instance, the night started off well, the first 8 frames have beautiful round stars, but then they very slightly start to trail and well....the rest is the story of my astro imaging!!

I'll get depressed if I talk about my lack of guiding too much!!

Polar alignment is excellent, balance good, PEC trained. etc. etc.

Barry.

[thing]

Excellent shot Barry, interesting to see the background galaxies there.

[Psychobilly]

Hi Barry,

Nice image .

If you have subs with dodgy tracking it better to be ruthless and cull them from the stack ratehr tahn leavign them in to increase the total exposure.

Billy...

[Robd]

Nice one Barry,

Had a go at this myself last night, well when I say had a go I mean I set out to try for it and the quintet. Had all sorts of trouble again with the guiding despite adding power to the usb hub. Finally gave up and tried M45 Struggled to focus after rotating DSLR to get the correct orientation. Then discovered that I had not got enough inward movement. Took a spacer out of the chain and all was OK.

Got a couple of decent short exposure ( 5 min ) so went for 10. Cloud rolled in and confused PHD so it took a little jump and screwed the image.

Decided it was not to be so gave up.

Must try harder next time

Rob

[Sam]

Excellent NGC 7331 Bary, had a go at this one the other night - very galaxy filled part of the sky!

Sam

[MartinB]

Wonderful shot Barry. Amazing to see all those faint fuzzies. At the risk depressing you, do you feel the guide problems are insoluble? What problems are you having exactly?