NGC 3187 and NGC 3190. Work in progress.

[Star101]

Work in progress

Started this Saturday night. I love these galaxies and been wanting to image them a long time. 

So far, only 30 x 60s L and 10 x 60s RGB. 

C11 with focal reducer (1760mm), ASI183mm Pro. Astrodon filters. Mesu 200. Pixinsight.

Thanks for looking

Dave

[wimvb]

Very nice catch. The background looks a bit bright and blue, but that's easy to fix in post processing.

Thanks for sharing.

[Star101]

Thanks, yes, I agree about the blue. I was just trying to bring out the detail. Hence the "Work in progress" I realised I need more data as this is only 1 hour's worth.

Has luck would have it, I have managed to collect another 100 x 60s L and 20 x 60s RGB so far. Just short of 1 hour before the meridian flip. Then I will decide if I want to carry on or aim for another target.

[Star101]

Spent more time on this last night as I said above.

Quick process to give this final image.

120 x 60s L

40 x 60s RGB

4 hours.

Thanks for looking.

 

 

[wimvb]

Great improvement, David. Some gradients left, but dbe should take care of that.

Btw, if you use arcsinh stretch on the rgb data before lrgb combination, you should see a real colour boost.