m74 L-HaRGB with SPX350

[johnh]

SPX350 F4.5 on EQ6 with ATK16-HR.

L-HaRGB, 220-45 12 12 12m. RGB binned2x2. In 3/5min subs.

Had guiding collimation problems during this imaging over a few nights, issues now sorted.

This galaxy is faint and big over 10' but very H alpha rich.

Thanks for looking.

[Sam]

That's a brilliant image! it's certainly a nice galaxy

[thing]

Superb image John.

[MikeD]

Great shot, Great colour and detail with nice tight guiding,result.

Mike.

[steppenwolf]

Very nice indeed, John - some great colour

[661-pete]

Yes yes yes! A feast of detail and colour in what is a difficult galaxy.

[Beyond_Vision]

Great image scale John and the Ha regoins are showing up really well.

Regards

Kevin

[Jarvo]

Thats a cracker John....Don't you just love this hobby when it all comes together.

Jarvo

[RobH]

Nicely done John.

The Ha regions have come out very well.

Cheers

Rob

[ollypenrice]

I'm with the others. How much of the full frame is this? Cropped a bit, or not? I ask because I only have 950mm of focal length and do feel a rather inspired by this fine image!

Olly.

[MartinB]

Lovely shot of a challenging target. Great Ha

[johnh]

Thanks folks for comments, as for focal length it is 1585mm and is slightly cropped from ATK16-HR 1392x1042 to 1328x997. I love my ATK-16HR.

Olly - I imaged it briefly with 10" at 1250mm making it a bit smaller but it is large at 12x10' similar size to fireworks galaxy NGC6946 and at 950mm (ATK-16HR has 32x24' field) M74 will have good area of black sky to contrast against filling middle third of frame.

JohnH.

[Starjumper]

Great image John

John

[Mel]

Nice shot John, I love the Ha star forming regions, they show up really well.

atb

Iain