DSLR & QHY268 Symbiosis on Sculptor Galaxy

[MarsG76]

Hi All,

I'm getting less and less time to spend time on the hobby but managed to carry out another experiment... it's another image of the very popularly imaged Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation SculptorIt about 12 million Light years away.

This image was combined by the use of both my QHY268M and old astromodded and cooled Canon 40D DSLR and this is my result of the (UV/IR Cut) Luminance, H-alpha captured using the QHY and OSC data from the Canon 40D of NGC253.

This image consists of 28 x 300 second luminance subs, 2 hours and 20 minutes of exposure time, 21 x 600 second H-alpha subs, 3 hours and 30 minutes of exposure time and the color data stack from 4th December 2019 I imaged with my astro modded and cooled Canon 40D consisting of exposures UV/IR Cut filtered 8x90s, 7x150s, 7x300s, 6x450s, 6x600s and Neodymium filtered 1x900s, 1x660s, 2x600s, 11x540s, 1x420s, 4x300s @ ISO1600, exposure time of 5 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconds. 

Total exposure time for this galaxy image was 11 hours, 31 minutes and 30 seconds.

Equipment was a C8 SCT at F10, QHY268M camera on a CGEM and added 2 year old DSLR color data.

 

Clear Skies (and time to enjoy them)

MG

 

 

[Allinthehead]

Lovely detail in the Galaxy, super.