Another Leo Galaxy NGC2903

[Laurin Dave]

Barred spiral galaxy NGC2903 in Leo imaged last night with my Esprit150/SX46 and piggybacked Esprit100/ASI1600.  7hrs Lum (including 1.5hrs from last year) and 100mins each RGB.  The galaxy is about 30million light years away and 100000 light years in diameter and has a high rate of star formation in its core.  Discovered by William Herschel who catalogued it on 16 November 1784 (Wiki).  Processed in APP Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Thanks for looking

Dave

 

[DaveS]

Ooh, that's lovely.

I have this one on my hit list as a possible First Light for the ODK12, just hope I get it commissioned before we lose Galaxy Season for this year.

Have you thought about some H-alpha? I reckon there's enough HII regions for it to pick them up.

[MarkAR]

Very nice image.

[Laurin Dave]

16 hours ago, DaveS said:

Ooh, that's lovely.

I have this one on my hit list as a possible First Light for the ODK12, just hope I get it commissioned before we lose Galaxy Season for this year.

Have you thought about some H-alpha? I reckon there's enough HII regions for it to pick them up.

Thanks Dave..  lets hope you get your observatory finished in time..  what you've completed so far looks great.  As for Ha, looking at others images there's a bit but I'd only do that if the Moon was out as extra LRGB would benefit the image more..  and hopefully bring out the blues.. 

Dave

[Rodd]

Probably the best example of this galaxy I have seen

Rodd