NGC660 polar ring galaxy - including no mirror heater blunder!

[Tommohawk]

Hi All. I thought this target was stretching things a bit for my kit and FL - it's 45 million light years away after all!

But to really screw it up I forgot to put the heater on the secondary! I connected it OK, but forgot to switch on the battery!

I didn't realise until I switched to the last (red filter) which needs a tiny refocus - initially I though it was just some dew on the screen, but no.... the images are horrible and the secondary was totally dewed up. Hey-ho.

So the data absolutely sucks - but I processed it just to see if it would be doable under normal conditions and I think the answer is yes. In fact TBH the end result is surprisingly good. Sky not looking good for the immediate future though so fingers crossed!

HEQ5, SW200P, ASI1600 @-20, 71x60s LUM and 40-80 x 60s RGB. (RGB Unbinned to try and keep detail in small target) APP and PS. I used SW CC which is x0.9 only to make connection easier/firmer. Optically probably would have been better without it. Cropped the final image.

Thanks for looking!